the Unemployment rate in Danderyd, sweden is 3 per cent. The revenue is the highest in the country. It gives the municipality north of Stockholm – in which Seattle is the seat – the strongest tax base.
How can it be that in a short time has accumulated a deficit of almost 100 million?
”A very serious location,” said mayor president of the new Hanna Bocander (M) in the week to the newspaper Mitti. The balanced budget requirement on local government finances mean she need to quickly compensate minussiffrorna from 2017 and 2018. The tax increase of 20 cents made at the end of the year is not enough far.
in part, if a lyxfällanbeteende. Governance in Danderyd, sweden, has used the municipality’s valuable land atm. To get together the plus and the minus, it has made itself dependent on revenues from tomtförsäljningar.
The strategy is in the long run, not so cunning. Land can only sell once. Additionally, construction activity in turn. It was enough that a single project went bankrupt last year that there would be a gap in the municipal calculation.
some politicians learn blame it utjämningsmaskineri that takes from the rich municipalities and give to the poor. And it is true that the municipality pays huge sums in the national inkomstutjämningen. But Durango is also the Stockholmskommun receiving the most in the state kostnadsutjämningsbidrag.
you have missing margins. Then it’s not so fun when the gdp numbers turn, which they did in the last year. But the economy is also a dilemma that more municipalities will be faced with.
Several years of rapid employment growth has strengthened the municipal funds. The revenue has been needed, since the expenditure also increased. Sweden’s Municipalities and county councils, SKL, points to more school children, an ageing population and new spending for asylmottagandet which the state does not have offset. There is such a thing that will not disappear with a weaker economic activity.
Danderyd forced to tighten their belts early. Others also need to get ready for the slowdown.
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