scholarly journals The Administrative Costs of Local Government Property-Based User Charges and Their Regressivity

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Helena Blažić ◽  
Sandra Stašić ◽  
Saša Drezgić
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
User Charges ◽  
Administrative Costs ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Collection Costs

The paper measures the administrative costs (assessment and collection costs) of immovable property user charges in local governments in Croatia. This study represents a small scale survey comprising mostly small local governments. First, we establish their costs structure and then we compare the cost-revenue ratio with their size. As expected, the administrative costs of the analyzed user charges turned out to be regressive in regards to the size of local governments. The results imply that substitution of those different charges would be beneficial for local government budgets. In order to mitigate the problem we propose several alternatives: one general tax/charge; amalgamation of the smallest local governments or referring to assessment and collection of user charges in small local governments to the larger/mutual unit.

Incentives for Efficiency: User Charges and Municipal Spending

1999 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward J. Bierhanzl
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Empirical Test ◽  
Ceteris Paribus ◽  
User Charge ◽  
The Public ◽  
User Charges ◽  
One Step ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Cost Effect ◽  
Quantity Effect

Abstract User charges have been an increasingly important source of revenue tor local governments. Furthermore, it has been suggested in the public finance literature that user charge finance can increase the efficiency of local government service provision, with the evidence being a reduction of expenditures, ceteris paribus. This paper goes one step further, using an empirical test to distinguishing die quantity effect from the cost effect. An analysis of local sewer service demonstrates that greater reliance on user charge finance does not have a significant impact on the quantity of service provided, but does lead to reduced cost of service. The argument for user charges as an efficiency-enhancing mechanism is thereby strengthened.

scholarly journals Research on Local Government Governance and Enterprise Social Responsibility Behaviors under the Perspective of Cournot Duopoly Competition: Analyzing Taxi Companies and Online Car-Hailing Service Companies

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xintao Li ◽  
Zaisheng Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Dynamic Game ◽  
Regulatory System ◽  
Cost Savings ◽  
Service Companies ◽  
Regulatory Policies ◽  
Governance Model ◽  
Dynamic Game Model ◽  
The Cost

Clarifying the rational choice strategy of local governments and enterprises is crucial for promoting control on the failure of taxis and online car-hailing service companies to fulfill their social responsibilities. The local government can reduce the negative externalities and irresponsibility of such companies by improving the regulatory system; thus, it is important to build a governance model that bridges tradition and modernity. This paper, on the basis of summarizing the achievements of the predecessors, builds a mixed dynamic game model among the local government, online car-hailing service companies, and taxi companies; analyzes the relationship between local government preference, execution, and governance of irresponsible enterprise behaviors; and analyzes the equilibrium solution between local government and duopoly enterprises behavior game deeply. The results show that the key to governance irresponsible companies is to make the punishment cost higher than the cost savings for irresponsible behaviors; no matter what the preference of the local government no-governance of online car-hailing service companies’ irresponsible behaviors may persist; and local government ambivalence when regulating irresponsible companies is derived from the complex relationship between social benefits and company interests. Finally, through the analysis of the equilibrium results for the above model, this paper provides suggestions on regulatory policies so as to provide theoretical support and a decision-making basis for establishing scientific, universal, and feasible governance policies and offering responsible methods of urban transportation.

scholarly journals Does the Underwriter Reputation Affect the Pricing of Local Government Bonds in China?

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Hongdan Ji
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Securities Market ◽  
Government Bonds ◽  
Government Interventions ◽  
Securities Company ◽  
Underwriter Reputation ◽  
The Cost ◽  
High Degree

As the product of the combination of fiscal and financial, local government bonds should also follow the pricing mechanism of the securities market even under the special financial system in China. This paper uses Heckman's two-stage model to investigate whether the mechanism of underwriter reputation affects the pricing of local government bonds. The empirical results show that local governments tend to choose securities company underwriters with high reputation when they issue bonds with large scale, long maturity, and call right which have high degree of information asymmetry, and this tendency has an obvious time trend. However, high-reputation securities company underwriters failed to play the role of information intermediary to reduce the cost of local governments. On the contrary, implicit guarantees and government interventions induced the commercial banks to depress their quotations even leading to “interest rate upside down”, which resulted in the lack of securities company underwriters. In order to play the mechanism of underwriter reputation to promote the marketization of local government bonds pricing, this paper proposes to eliminate government interference, guide underwriters to strengthen the construction of their reputation, promote the marketization of underwriting fees and strengthen the supervision of underwriters.

scholarly journals Recreational Homes: Town Characteristics and Variations in Concentrations

1979 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-141
Author(s):  
Pamela H. Pataky ◽  
Edmund F. Jansen
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
New England ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Tax Revenue ◽  
Forest Land ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Over Time

Recreational home development has been and is likely to continue to be a major concern of many local governments in New England and elsewhere. Recreational homes are defined here as homes that are not the owner's primary residence and are used for vacation, leisure, or recreation. It is generally agreed that this type of development is initially beneficial to local government finances. While more town services may be required, the cost is usually outweighed by the added tax revenue. It is believed, however, that over time recreational homes may be converted to primary homes, which could lead to cost increases without proportional increases in revenue (Am. Soc. of Planning Officials, Clark, Payne). Also, from a wider perspective, the loss of agricultural and forest land to this use may not be desirable.

scholarly journals Research on the Evolution of Collusion between Government and Civil Construction Enterprises in Environmental Regulation

2021 ◽  
Vol 248 ◽  
pp. 02053
Author(s):  
Cao Yingying
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Environmental Regulation ◽  
Optimal Strategy ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Evolutionary Game ◽  
Regional Migration ◽  
Construction Enterprises ◽  
Emission Behavior ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Way

Polluting civil construction enterprises usually use the way of "voting with their feet" to exert influence on the efforts of local government's environmental regulation, promote the formation of collusion between government and enterprises, and make the local government relax the supervision on the emission behavior of civil construction enterprises. Based on the Tibert model, this paper uses the evolutionary game method to study the collusion between government and enterprises in the cross regional migration of civil construction enterprises and its prevention. The results show that: when the civil construction enterprises comply with the production, the local government's optimal strategy is non collusion strategy; similarly, when the local government is not willing to collude, the non-collusion choice of civil construction enterprises will get higher benefits than collusion. In addition, the cost of civil construction enterprises transferring between different regions, the loss caused by the collusion between civil construction enterprises and local governments, and the probability of local government violations being found can effectively prevent the collusion between local governments and civil construction enterprises.

scholarly journals Analyzing local government financial performance: evidence from Brazilian municipalities 2005-2008

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 704-719 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo Correa Gomes ◽  
Solange Alfinito ◽  
Pedro Henrique Melo Albuquerque
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Financial Performance ◽  
Performance Management ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
New Public ◽  
Upper Level

Municipality size has become an issue since the New Public Management doctrine of disaggregating structures into manageable units. In some countries, this doctrine led to the creation of small-scale agencies relying heavily upon transfers from upper-level governments. This paper aims to contribute to performance management literature by providing empirical evidence about some determinant factors that are likely to endow local governments with superior financial performance. Data came from a sample of Brazilian municipalities and refers to the period 2005-2008. The main conclusion of this investigation is that larger cities are more likely to manage revenue and expenditure better than are smaller cities, which aligns with the discussion of amalgamation versus fragmentation. This conclusion stems from the findings that in small municipalities mayors have fewer conditions to improve financial performance due to the difficulty of raising and collecting taxes and of reducing expenditures, which makes their administrations far more dependent upon external sources of money. Therefore, this dependent relationship can be seen as the cause of poor financial performance to the extent that it lowers mayoral discretion when making decisions. Another contribution this paper proposes to theory and practice relates to the fact that in the strong-mayor form of local government, mayoral qualification is likely to have little effect upon performance.

scholarly journals Alternate Local Revenue Sources: User Charges

1982 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-92
Author(s):  
Judith N. Collins
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Property Tax ◽  
Total Revenue ◽  
User Charges ◽  
Local Revenue ◽  
Revenue Sources

User charges were the second most important source of local government own source revenue in 1977. Local governments in 1977 collected $19 billion in user charges, such as admission fees. This represented 16 percent of total revenue from own sources. The biggest revenue producer at the local level, the property tax, accounted for half of all locally raised revenue.

scholarly journals Local Government Functions in Improving the Quality Health

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 108
Author(s):  
Siti Normi
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Medical Patients ◽  
Role Of Government ◽  
Hospital Operations ◽  
Quality Health ◽  
The Cost

The local government in improving health care visits of policy instruments used by local governments is mandatory instruments. This required the use of instruments is evident from the role of government in health care without the intervention of the private sector. The supporting factors consist of: full support financing of medical facilities and the cost of hospital operations, the rules on which the service work and visit patients continued to increase from year to year. While the factors that may hinder the improvement of the quality of health care include: unbalance the ratio between the number of medical patients, the still small site allowance for hospital employees, they still lack the human resources development program, and the limited facilities and infrastructure of the hospital.

OPTIMALISASI PERAN PEMDA DALAM MENGATASI KENDALA PELAKSANAAN KONSERVASI KEANEKARAGAMAN HAYATI DI DAERAH (STUDI KASUS PROVINSI BENGKULU)

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Antung Deddy Radiansyah
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Wild Plants ◽  
Regional Government ◽  
Conservation Areas ◽  
Conservation Area ◽  
Conservation Policies

Gaps in biodiversity conservation management within the Conservation Area that are the responsibility of the central government and outside the Conservation Areas or as the Essential Ecosystems Area (EEA) which are the authority of the Regional Government, have caused various spatial conflicts between wildlife /wild plants and land management activities. Several obstacles faced by the Local Government to conduct its authority to manage (EEA), caused the number and area of EEA determined by the Local Government to be still low. At present only 703,000 ha are determined from the 67 million ha indicated by EEA. This study aims to overview biodiversity conservation policies by local governments and company perceptions in implementing conservation policies and formulate strategies for optimizing the role of Local Governments. From the results of this study, there has not been found any legal umbrella for the implementation of Law number 23/ 2014 related to the conservation of important ecosystems in the regions. This regulatory vacuum leaves the local government in a dilemma for continuing various conservation programs. By using a SWOT to the internal strategic environment and external stratetegic environment of the Environment and Forestry Service, Bengkulu Province , as well as using an analysis of company perceptions of the conservation policies regulatary , this study has been formulated a “survival strategy” through collaboration between the Central Government, Local Governments and the Private Sector to optimize the role of Local Government’s to establish EEA in the regions.Keywords: Management gaps, Essential Ecosystems Area (EEA), Conservation Areas, SWOT analysis and perception analysis

Entrepreneurship Management at the Local Government Level: The Experience of the Cities for Entrepreneurs Program

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 388-407
Author(s):  
Patricio Gigli ◽  
◽  
Donatela Orsi ◽  
Marisel Martín Aramburú ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Structural Characteristics ◽  
National Level ◽  
Development Issue ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Local Government Level ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Government Level

This paper aims at describing the experience of the Cities for Entrepreneurs Program (Ciudades para Emprender or CPE) of the National Directorate of Community and Human Capital (which belongs to the SEPYME), National Ministry of Production. This paper starts from the premise that entrepreneurship takes place at the most micro level of the offer and, therefore, is a concept associated with the characteristics of the environment closest to that offer: the local territory. However, there is little history in the country of public policies relating the issue of entrepreneurship with the local management. That is why we take as a starting point the conceptualization of the chosen framework: local governments and the development issue, seen from the perspective of entrepreneurships. Moreover, an overview is given on the structural characteristics of municipalities in Argentina. In addition, some international experiences and attempts to promote entrepreneurship at a national level are analyzed. Finally, the Cities for Entrepreneurs Program (CPE) is outlined, based on a summary of the diagnoses of the Entrepreneurial Ecosystems of the selected cities and the tools used and their execution status at the time of publication of this paper.

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