Half of the proceeds goes to the municipal maintenance of their machine

In 2012, about half of the budgets of local authorities went to the content of their executive staff. However, many municipalities give their managers and workers meager wages.

In 2012, the total revenue budget 1718 municipalities in Azerbaijan amounted to AZN 35 860.5. This represents only 0.2% of the revenues of the state budget in 2012, indicating that the role of local government in public administration.

Parliamentary majority believes that it is impossible to give municipalities the authority of the European scale, as they can not cope with their execution. The first elections to the local self-government in Azerbaijan took place in February 1999. They do not have any major powers capable of influencing the social and economic life of their territories. The powers of local government is actually owned by the local executive authorities and their administrative and territorial representation.

According to the State Statistics Committee, in 2012, to the budgets of municipalities from land tax and property tax collected from individuals who were about 10 million manat. In this case, from the sale of municipal land was bailed out a lot more of these funds - 12.2 million manat. A considerable share in the revenues of municipalities took subsidies from the state budget - 4 457.7 thousand manats. Thus, each municipality received from the state about 2.6 thousand manats. - 08B-