Research Catalog

Title

Reforming Federal Fiscal Relations in Austria [electronic resource] / Andrés Fuentes, Eckhard Wurzel and Andreas Wörgötter

Author

Fuentes, Andrés.

Publication

Paris : OECD Publishing, 2006.

Details

Additional Authors

• Wurzel, Eckhard.
• Wörgötter, Andreas.

Description

35 p.; 21 x 29.7cm.

Summary

This paper reviews the fiscal relations between the three levels of government in Austria and points to the scope for reforming them with a view to improving the efficiency of the public sector. Key areas of public sector activity are subject to complex relations across the three layers of government. Fragmentation of decision-making in some spending programmes, such as hospital care and social assistance benefits, needs to be overcome, concentrating financing and spending responsibilities on one government level. Strengthening co-operation between municipalities as well as amalgamations of small municipalities would allow advantage to be taken of scale economies in the provision of local government services. Stronger tax-raising powers of the municipalities and the states, reform of tax sharing rules and improved budgeting procedures would raise the ability of sub-national governments to match the supply of services to local demand patters and improve accountability to voters. This Working Paper relates to the 2005 OECD Economic Survey of Austria (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/austria)

Series Statement

OECD Economics Department Working Papers, 1815-1973 ; no.474

Uniform Title

OECD Economics Department Working Papers, no.474.

Subject

• Economics
• Austria

LCCN

10.1787/880241418571

OCLC

oecd-lib-001333

Author

Fuentes, Andrés.

Title

Reforming Federal Fiscal Relations in Austria [electronic resource] / Andrés Fuentes, Eckhard Wurzel and Andreas Wörgötter

Imprint

Paris : OECD Publishing, 2006.

Series

OECD Economics Department Working Papers, 1815-1973 ; no.474

OECD Economics Department Working Papers, 1815-1973 ; no.474.

Connect to:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/880241418571

Indexed Term

Economics

Austria

Added Author

Wurzel, Eckhard.

Wörgötter, Andreas.

Other Standard Identifier

10.1787/880241418571 doi