Public finance and revenue mobilization in union parishads

Despite the long history of local government in Bangladesh, these institutions, particularly Union Parishads (UPs), are heavily dependent on central government grant allocations rather than local revenue. This makes the UPs rely greatly on central government to perform all developmental and opera...

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Autores principales:	Rahman, Sultan Hafeez, Hossain, Md. Shanawez, Uddin, Mohammed Misbah
Formato:	Research brief
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BRAC University 2018
Materias:	Public finance Union parishad
Acceso en línea:	http://hdl.handle.net/10361/11000

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spelling	10361-110002019-09-30T04:35:09Z Public finance and revenue mobilization in union parishads Rahman, Sultan Hafeez Hossain, Md. Shanawez Uddin, Mohammed Misbah Public finance Union parishad Despite the long history of local government in Bangladesh, these institutions, particularly Union Parishads (UPs), are heavily dependent on central government grant allocations rather than local revenue. This makes the UPs rely greatly on central government to perform all developmental and operational activities. UPs have little incentive to mobilize their own resources. UPs do not seem to be financially solvent due to lack of capacity and low quality of local human resources, weak tax assessment capacity, concern of elected representatives about losing local political representation, pervasive tax evasion culture, perceived gap between tax payment and service delivery and narrow revenue base. Very few studies have been undertaken to assess the real context and constraints to local resource mobilization at the UP level. This study aims to analyse system and processes to increase revenue from local sources by assessing their capacity as well as challenges. 2018-12-10T06:00:12Z 2018-12-10T06:00:12Z 2016-07 Research brief http://hdl.handle.net/10361/11000 en application/pdf BRAC University
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description	Despite the long history of local government in Bangladesh, these institutions, particularly Union Parishads (UPs), are heavily dependent on central government grant allocations rather than local revenue. This makes the UPs rely greatly on central government to perform all developmental and operational activities. UPs have little incentive to mobilize their own resources. UPs do not seem to be financially solvent due to lack of capacity and low quality of local human resources, weak tax assessment capacity, concern of elected representatives about losing local political representation, pervasive tax evasion culture, perceived gap between tax payment and service delivery and narrow revenue base. Very few studies have been undertaken to assess the real context and constraints to local resource mobilization at the UP level. This study aims to analyse system and processes to increase revenue from local sources by assessing their capacity as well as challenges.
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title_short	Public finance and revenue mobilization in union parishads
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Public finance and revenue mobilization in union parishads

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