Local taxes on economic activity in municipalities in EU Member States

Benedikt Herrmann ()
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Benedikt Herrmann: European Commission - JRC, https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/index_en

No JRC129095, JRC Research Reports from Joint Research Centre

Abstract: Revenues from taxes on local economic activities to local budgets can work as a reward for municipalities, which pursue local policies conducive for development of the local business. The variety of taxes generating revenues from local economy to local budgets is very large within Europe. This survey reviews the structure of taxes and their share in revenues of municipalities’ budgets in 2019 across Member States. There are substantial differences across EU Member States in the share of revenues from taxes on local economic activities to local budgets, which work as an award for efforts of municipalities to increase productivity of local business. Shares range from 0 % to 66 %. EU Member States with such shares equal or higher EU-average had stronger economic growth in the period 2015-2019 than EU Member States with shares below EU average, indicating that these shares could play an important role for sustainable economic development at national level.

Keywords: Municipalities; tax revenues; economic growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-04
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