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Speaking at a conference on competences and financing of local governments organized by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the Foundation Manuel Giménez Abad.
Remember that the accounts of municipalities have already been ordered, from closing exercises increase the deficit to surplus in 2012 and 2013.
The Mayor, Miguel Ángel Cámara, has expressed the need to undertake the reform of public administration in Spain, once done already affecting the municipalities.
This has been said in his speech on behalf of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces, in the seminar "What skills and what funding local governments-must have", organized by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the Foundation Manuel Giménez Abad, who was held last week.
House, who chairs the Committee on Financing of Local Farms and FEMP, participated in the event to explain the local reform in Spain.
The Mayor spoke in an interview with the General Secretary of Regional and Local Coordination, Ministry of Finance and Public Administration, Rosana Navarro, President of the Provincial Council of Barcelona, ​​Salvador Esteve, and the Mayor of Huesca, Ana Isabel Alos.
Local reform, which has been one of the initiatives more "worked and debated", which were reached edit 37 drafts, has been carried out while were "ordered" the accounts of municipalities, that after liquidating 2011 Deficit in 2012 closed with a surplus of 0.4% and 0.57% next year.
The mayor also noted that the new provision has avoided duplication of powers, by the principle of "an administration, a competition," clarify the municipal level services and ensure the provision of public services, regardless of the size of the municipality.
The shift of the regional administration
Now, noted House, is necessary to undertake urgent reform of the regional administration, which must assume their own responsibilities and finance services received by citizens of local authorities, although they are a regional responsibility.
The management and collection of municipal taxes is essential for the maintenance of public services and taking into account that according to the latest data published by the Ministry of Finance and Public Administration, the main source of revenue for municipalities are those that come from their taxes.
Specifically, municipalities receive 56% of their income in taxes, fees and charges, 3.2% of the sale of its assets, 20.5% state and 7% of the autonomous communities.
The seminar has started today and runs until Saturday also includes analysis of other aspects of local government, including municipal services which are needed, skills, funding and format of local authorities with the future or Local reform in the European context.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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