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Factors affecting municipal fiscal capacity in Thailand |
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| Title | Factors affecting municipal fiscal capacity in Thailand |
| Creator | Wisuttinee Taneerat |
| Contributor | Montree Socatiyanurak |
| Publisher | National Institute of Development Administration |
| Publication Year | 2560 |
| Keyword | Municipal finance, Municipal government |
| Abstract | The purpose of this research is to 1) study various characters on thedevelopment of revenue structures and fiscal capacity of municipalities in Thailand,2) investigate the relationship among factors affecting the municipal fiscal capacity,and 3) propose policy recommendations regarding improving and heightening themunicipal fiscal capacity to different concerned agencies.||Initially, conduct the part of the literature review, which led to the scope of thestudy and the quantitative research, which was employed. Annual secondary data of2,441, which were in a form of pooled cross-section data from 2012-2015, were usedalong with the analysis on the operating ratio and ordinal logistic regression analysis.||The findings on the municipal revenue structure during the past four yearsreveals that revenues of most municipalities are from government allocations andgrants, as high of a proportion as 88.95% whereas their local levied taxes arecomparably small. In addition, the analytical results also show that overallmunicipalities possess fiscal capacity at a low level, especially the larger ones, as thelarger they are, the lesser their fiscal capacity since they need to provide broaderpublic services.||The empirical theoretical test discloses that 1) organizational resource theoryon an issue of socio-economic factors is both an internal factor of availability withinmunicipalities and an external factor which provides additional advantages overothers and that the socio-economic factors play an important role in municipal fiscal||capacity. 2) Having an institutional model is the result from formats and attributes setby the Municipal Act which makes municipalities possess a similar character. 3) Therelationship built on years of election is due to the trends of decentralization andgovernance being globally popular that further results in the maximum utilization ofresources to cope with more demand of public services, which in turn is consistentwith the theory of political business cycles. 4) There is a non-existent relationshipbetween intergovernmental transferring of funds through nonexistence, which is animportant measurement in closing fiscal gaps while enhancing municipalities inorganizing public services, which helps, create equality among regions and locals ofdifferences in fiscal capacity.||The policy recommendations include 1) the government should focus more onarea development contexts in order to minimize fiscal structure stress which is theprimary problem occurring from basic character of community faults. 2) Thegovernment should modernize some legislation policies especially the ones related tomunicipal levied tax in order to clearly guide municipalities to set a more suitablemethod of tax collection. 3) The government should encourage municipalitiesespecially the sub-district to work proactively on the issues of revenue collecting andraising to lessen its dependence on government grants and allocations as well asefficiently and effectively improve its expenditure administration. |
| Language | EN |
| URL Website | https://repository.nida.ac.th/handle/662723737/5884 |
| Website title | NIDA Wisdom Repository |
