Znaczenie wladztwa podatkowego dla budzetow gmin (The importance of tax authority for the budgets of municipalities)

Municipalitiesin order to fulfill their tasks and achieve social and economic goals. need to have an adequate level of public revenue. Local taxes and fees are of significant importance in this context, because in their scope local authorities have a given tax authority scope. They can apply tax breaks and exemptions, set tax rates, or cancel tax arrears. The article assumes a research hypothesis that the scope of tax authority granted to municipalities affects the reduction of budget revenue of these units. The aim of the article is to analyze and assess the impact of tax authorities’ municipalities on the budget of these units in Poland. For this purpose, a critical analysis of the subject literature and the analysis of legal acts was made. The tax efficiency of local taxes and charges was also diagnosed and the financial consequences of lowering upper tax rates, granting reliefs and redundancies, redemptions, spreading into installments and postponing payment terms by municipalities in relation to total revenues and own revenues in 2008–2017 were presented. The analysis showed that the tax authorities applied by the municipalities resultedpozoin a decrease in budgets revenue of these units. The municipal authorities decided in particular to reduce the upper tax rates.