Municipal Tax Revenues in Times of the Economic Crisis

Nowadays, the phenomenon of the Economic Crisis is still very topical economic issue. Not only private but also public sphere suffer from Economic Crisis. Thesis, called "Municipal Tax Revenues in Times of the Economic Crisis", deals with development of tax revenues between 2007 and 2010. In addition, this paper scrutinizes evolution of other revenues that flows into municipal budgets. For this analysis, three cities in Central Region of the Czech Republic, such as Mladá Boleslav, Mnichovo Hradiště and Kosmonosy, were selected. Above-mentioned work also focuses on possibilities of municipalities in terms of coping with reduced tax revenues. The crisis have not affected monitored municipalities so dramatically. Although tax revenues have considerably decreased, municipalities did cope with such a situation by means of drawing reserves from previous years. Thesis is divided into four chapters. First part deals predominantly with municipal revenues in general (tax, non-tax, capital receipts, subsidies) and budget-designated taxes. In the next chapter, revenues of chosen municipalities are analysed. In the third chapter, these revenues are compared by the test of selected municipalities. The last part formulates municipalities` options to prevent the reduction in tax revenues