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Strengthening local self-government a top priority
Belgrade,
14 December 2004
Serbian Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government Zoran Loncar said today that strengthening local self-government is one of the Serbian government’s top priorities.
Author:
Tanjug
Loncar said at the assembly of the Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities that decentralisation is the government’s priority, given that it represents a pre-requisite for democratisation of the country.
Loncar announced he will initiate a meeting with his Montenegrin counterpart in order to urge the Serbia-Montenegrin parliament to ratify the European Charter of Local Self-Government.
Serbian Minister of Finance Mladjan Dinkic stressed the importance of launching fiscal decentralisation but he also warned that more funds mean more responsibility for municipal authorities.
He said a strategy for fiscal decentralisation will be drafted by the end of March 2005, adding that local authorities may cut taxes in accordance with their incomes.
Dinkic said that a total of 75.8 billion dinars will have been transferred to municipal governments from the state budget this year, while the planned sum for 2005 is 88.5 billion dinars.
He also hinted at the possibility of moving some staff from the Serbian Tax Administration to municipalities.
Loncar announced he will initiate a meeting with his Montenegrin counterpart in order to urge the Serbia-Montenegrin parliament to ratify the European Charter of Local Self-Government.
Serbian Minister of Finance Mladjan Dinkic stressed the importance of launching fiscal decentralisation but he also warned that more funds mean more responsibility for municipal authorities.
He said a strategy for fiscal decentralisation will be drafted by the end of March 2005, adding that local authorities may cut taxes in accordance with their incomes.
Dinkic said that a total of 75.8 billion dinars will have been transferred to municipal governments from the state budget this year, while the planned sum for 2005 is 88.5 billion dinars.
He also hinted at the possibility of moving some staff from the Serbian Tax Administration to municipalities.
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