Empirical literature says that unconditional IFTs are the type of fiscal transfers with the least effect on local government spending. The literature posits that the reason for this is that local governments use these transfers to substitute for own-sourced revenues such as local taxes. This ...
AI helps local governments analyze public sentiment on social media channels—an increasingly popular way to measure the success or failure of a program. Whether the subject is raising property taxes, building new schools through capital investment, or changing airplane flight patterns over a residentia...
To help address this research gap, this paper provides a case study of multiplier effects of local government spending in regions in the Philippines as well as spillover effects of local government spending across regions. An instrumental variable based on the country’s intergovernmental transfer ...
He was able to get the US to refund all of the taxes I paid to the Chinese government, even going back to my first year – 2006. He handled all of the financials surrounding my relocation in 2012 as well as when my wife moved to the US last year and had to bring all of her ...
Most importantly, we would like to thank the Municipal Government of Tubigon, and the island communities of Batasan, Bilangbilangan, Pangapasan and Ubay for their full cooperation in this research. Author information Authors and Affiliations University of Tokyo, Graduate Program in Sustainability ...
(g) The basic services and facilities hereinabove enumerated shall be funded from the share of local government units in the proceeds of national taxes and other local revenues and funding support from the national government, its instrumentalities and government-owned or controlled corporations which...
Engaging the help of a partner that has broad expertise in the regulatory environment of each country or vetting multiple local partnerships to supply missing local knowledge and connections to help navigate labor laws, licensing, taxes, and enforcement procedures ...
This latter local government's action might be the most plausible in high-income settings, where local governments might even reduce taxes (Noy and Nualsri, 2011). However, in low- and middle income countries like the Philippines, where most local authorities highly depend on central government ...
The long-term benefit of registering a local entity is the goodwill you can build with state and local governments. Corporations that are in growth mode could need any number of government services. This can include trash removal, utilities, and government vendor contracts. Those might not be ...
The dramatic increase in revenue reflects the growth on the productive sector that goes into the provinces’ and districts’ balance through taxes. However, the marginal increase in capital spending serves as a testament on the limited role of local government in promoting industrial development which...