The influence of economic crisis on municipality and region revenues

The main topic of this thesis is the influence of economic crisis on municipality and region revenues. The work deals with the city of Jihlava and the Vysočina region. The subject of examination is development of four basic components of municipal and regional revenues between years 2008 - 2010. The thesis is divided into three main parts. Part One includes theoretical definition of municipalities and regions, their basic characteristics, and mechanism of the redistribution of taxes between the local municipal authorities. The second part analyzes the revenues of both subjects in each year. The third part deals with comparison of impact of the economic crisis on a specific city and region. One of the consequences of the economic crisis was fall of tax revenues of local government units. Jihlavas dependence on tax revenues is much more significant than dependence of Vysočina region. For this reason, the impact of the economic crisis on revenues was more significant for corporate town Jihlava