Today we face the radical changes in the local government. It is evident that these changes will be a factor to increase local government residents' administrative needs and consequently to expand local public services. Therefore, the role of local pu...
Today we face the radical changes in the local government. It is evident that these changes will be a factor to increase local government residents' administrative needs and consequently to expand local public services. Therefore, the role of local public finance becomes important and necessary for the accomplishment of the local autonomy.
The purpose of this thesis is to examine whether revenue sharing has financial equalization and stimulation effect.
The framework of this thesis is composed of two parts.
The institutional dimension is the first part and the second part is the operational dimension. In these contexts, the revenue sharing system ought to be reformed to accomplish the following goals; 1) rational goal setting through comprehensive and long-term planning, 2) reform of civil servants' negative and uncooperative behavior, and 3) institutionalization of linking mechanism between annual budgeting and long-term planning, as well as public and private investments.
The result of these empirical analysis subjects the followings
First, the viewpoint on the desirable system and finance level ought to be changed because local financial autonomy in decision-making and budgeting is the essential point in determining whether local self-governments is valuable or not.
Second, on its scale, the legal share rate(currently 15% of the total internal tax) should be upgraded.
Third, the formula of calculating general the revenue sharing should be revamped so as to mitigate the dysfunction which may result from the management of fiscal incentive system.
Fourth, on the allotment design of the current revenue sharing, 1) To improve assessment items, reformation of assessment units are advised. For the proper calculation of the standard local fiscal revenue, the discrimination of assessment rates of the standard local fiscal revenue is presented. Compensation of the current non-tax revenue to the standard fiscal revenue, and gradation of equalization rate are also considered. 2) To equalize the imbalanced fiscal capacity among the local government, negative revenue sharing is introduced, which grants funds of wealthy localities to poor ones. 3) We introduce to tax sharing system. Fiscal equalization program of local governments might be reformed to incorporate the horizontal fiscal transfer system which is operating in Germany.
Finally, this thesis emphasizes the coordination and control of the central government. The function as coordinator should be developed, but the control function should be limited. By doing so, the central government function as can develop the conditions of the self regulating local government, and can be trusted as the rational allocator.
In conclusion, the new reform measure is the antithesis of traditional concepts and operations. In the system of today, we are seeing the transformation of a centralized structure into a flexible and autonomous decentralized one that can contribute to be more effective in problem solving for the sound and rational local finance.