The Rate of Relative Dependence of the Municipal Budgets in the Years 2010-2014 in Trnava Region

Abstract

By decentralization of public administration, the municipalities became executors of a broad set of original and transferred competencies.Although the implementation of competences delegated from the state remained in the hands of municipalities, funding for their performance is provided by the state.Introduced paper deals with the rate of relative financial dependence of municipality budgets from the central level in the Slovakia, based on partial results of the project "The rate of relative dependence of municipal budgets in the years 2010 2014 in Trnava region". The aim of this paper is to identify and analyze the rate of financial dependence of seven district towns in Trnava region: Trnava, Hlohovec, Pies”fany, Senica, Skalica, Galanta and Dunajska Streda.when it is observed the relationship of financial dependency of the town budget and population size of the town.from a methodological perspective, the method of financial analysis was used as well as followin method of comparison of the obtained data from the final accounts of district town-s l The results show that on average less than one fifth of the total town incomes of the period 2010 - 2014 came from the state budget. Within the example there wasn’t confirmed relationship between the percentage of financial dependence of the towns and population size of the towns.