GOSPODARKA FINANSOWA PODSEKTORA SAMORZĄDOWEGO W KRAJACH UE W OKRESIE 2007-2011

Economic crisis of 2007-2011 has resulted in the decrease in GDP in USA, Japan and all EU member countries except Poland. It has also deteriorated the general government finance, caused sharp decline of revenue and increase in operating expenditures, ratios of debt to GDP and net borrowing to GDP. We investigate, in the EU member states, an impact of the GDP decline on local government finance: local revenue (taxes on income, wealth, and production, current transfers), operating expenditures, investment, operating surplus, net borrowing and indebtedness. We present comparisons of select countries, of the EU15 and the “new member states” over 2007-2011. The analysis bases on the Eurostat data and the Source OECD database.