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Since the very beginning of their establishment, municipalities, counties and regions (voivodeships) have been struggling with financial problems. Unfortunately, these problems affect the performance of the tasks assigned to these administrative units, including the standard of provided services and investment activities. Although extensive, the scale of the unsatisfied needs in LGUs varies between individual units, including municipalities. Thus, the positive financial results (the balance at the closure of the fiscal year) achieved by local government units in Poland in the recent years, as well as their future, offer an intriguing topic of research. The purpose of this paper is to identify the causes that: 1) underpin the re-evaluation of the LGU goals (from the implementation of the local government mission to achieving a budget surplus), and 2) allow the positive result of the LGU budget to finance goals other than investment-related ones. In order to achieve this, the study covers and illustrates, using the empirical data from the years 2007-2016, the types of possible LGU budget results, LGU activities that could contribute to the closure to LGU budgets with a positive result, directions of using budget surpluses and the so-called uncommitted funds, as well as local governments’ debt in terms of the intergenerational solidarity concept of its repayment and its perceived optimal structure.
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The considerable growth of Polish local government debt observed recently has resulted in the increasing importance of debt management as part of the overall financial management in local government units. An essential tool in this process is the long-term financial forecast, mandatory since 2010. In 2013 local governments were also obliged to report, in a standardised form, their forecasts, and the first aggregated data have already been published by the Ministry of Finance. Thus, for the first time, trends in the local government debt management in Poland could be analysed. This paper examines the main features of this process as reflected in local governments’ financial plans. In particular, the size of the planned debt and its service has been analysed in absolute terms and in relation to the units’ income, followed by an analysis of debt repayment schedules and the cost of the debt.
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Znaczący w ostatnich latach wzrost zadłużenia polskich samorządów spowodował, że zarządzanie długiem stało się niezwykle istotnym elementem zarządzania finansami w jednostkach samorządu terytorialnego. Niezbędnym w tym procesie narzędziem jest obowiązkowa od 2010 r. wieloletnia prognoza finansowa. Począwszy od 2013 r., jednostki zobligowane zostały dodatkowo do raportowania w ujednoliconej formie swoich prognoz, które ostatecznie zostały zebrane i upublicznione w zbiorczym zestawieniu przez Ministerstwo Finansów. Dane te umożliwiły po raz pierwszy zbadanie tendencji w zarządzaniu długiem samorządowym w Polsce. W niniejszym artykule zbadano najważniejsze przejawy tego procesu, które zostały odzwierciedlone w planach finansowych jednostek. Przeanalizowano w szczególności wielkość planowanego zadłużenia oraz jego obsługę (w ujęciu bezwzględnym, jak i w relacji do dochodów jednostek), wskazano także na rozplanowanie spłaty długu w czasie oraz na wysokość jego kosztów.
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The article presents the issues of effective management of local government debt. Local government debt can be seen as an effect of accumulated budget inequality. The considerations in the article concern the analysis of the sources of financing the activities of local government units and the effectiveness of their use in the context of maintaining an appropriate level of liquidity and meeting statutory standards. For this purpose, financial data of local government units for the years 2010–2020 were examined. The study was enriched with the results of research on the budget policy of municipalities on which the authors worked in previous years. It made it possible to trace the tendencies in the field of debt policy in local government units and to establish the challenges faced by representatives of local government authorities.
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The article presents the issues of effective management of local government debt. Local government debt can be seen as an effect of accumulated budget inequality. The considerations in the article concern the analysis of the sources of financing the activities of local government units and the effectiveness of their use in the context of maintaining an appropriate level of liquidity and meeting statutory standards. For this purpose, financial data of local government units for the years 2010–2020 were examined. The study was enriched with the results of research on the budget policy of municipalities on which the authors worked in previous years. It made it possible to trace the tendencies in the field of debt policy in local government units and to establish the challenges faced by representatives of local government authorities.
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Instytucja indywidualnego wskaźnika zadłużenia JST jest instytucją nową i jeszcze nie do końca sprawdzoną. Po raz pierwszy w 2014 r. JST, aby uchwalić budżet, musiały wziąć pod uwa-gę nowy sposób liczenia zdolności do zadłużania się. Mimo, iż było wiadome, że nowy sposób liczenia nastąpi za kilka lat, to nie wszystkie samorządy odpowiednio się do tego przygotowały. JST po ustanowieniu nowych reguł zadłużania się podjęły pewne kroki dostosowujące zadłu-żenie do nowych reguł. W związku z powyższym większość z gmin nie miała problemów z uchwa-leniem budżetu na 2014 r. Pojawiły się jednak takie gminy, które w trakcie prac nad budżetem na 2014 r. miały pro-blem ze spełnieniem nowych ograniczeń zadłużenia i stawały w obliczu konieczności przygo-towania programu naprawczego. W województwie podkarpackim taka sytuacja dotyczyła gmin wiejskich: Krzywcza, Dubiecko oraz Baligród. W ostateczności każda z tych gmin uchwaliła program naprawczy. Bardzo dobrym przykładem, który wskazuje na właściwość zastosowanego przez ustawo-dawcę wskaźnika jest wcześniej wspomniana gmina Dubiecko, która według nowych przepisów musiała uchwalić początkiem kwietnia 2014 r. program naprawczy na lata 2014–2016. Według poprzednio obowiązujących granic zadłużenia w 2013 r. zadłużenie tej gminy po uwzględnieniu zobowiązań wyniosło 52,01% dochodów ogółem. Pokazuje to, że wskaźnik jeszcze w większym stopniu ograniczy zadłużanie JST.
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Institution of individual debt ratio in local government units is new and not yet fully proven. For the first time in 2014 local government units in order to adopt a budget have to consider the new method of calculating the debt capacity. Although it was known that new calculating method will take place in few years time, not all local governments prepared respectively. The goal of the article is to show how individual debt ratio affect constantly growing debt of selected municipali-ties in podkarpackie voivodeship. The basic method during the research was dogmatic-law method, because most of the source data is located in local government unit resolutions. Theoretical-law method and historical-law method were also used. Local government units after establishment of the new debt rules have taken some steps to adjust the debt to the new rules. Consequently, most of the municipalities had no problems with the adoption of the budget for 2014. However, there were such municipalities, which during the works on the budget for 2014 had problems with fulfilling new restrictions on debt and were faced with the need to prepare recovery program. In podkarpackie voivodeship such situations took place in country municipalities: Krzywcza, Dubiecko and Baligrod. In the end, each of these municipalities adopted the recovery program. A very good example that shows adequacy of individual debt ratio used by the legislator is the above-mentioned municipality Dubiecko, which according to the new rules had to adopt at the beginning of April 2014, the recovery program for the years 2014–2016. According to the previ-ously existing debt boundaries in 2013, the debt of this municipality after the commitments was 52.01% of total revenue. This shows that individual debt ratio will reduce the indebtedness of local government units to larger extend22
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Wprowadzony w 2014 r. indywidualny wskaźnik zadłużenia dla jednostek samorządu terytorialnego stanowi narzędzie zapewniania bezpieczeństwa finansowego JST, a także uwzględnia indywidualne zdolności każdej JST do regulowania zobowiązań. Jego konstrukcja jest jednak krytykowana, a Ministerstwo Finansów zapowiada jego modyfikację. Celem artykułu jest wskazanie problemów związanych z zadłużeniem jednostek samorządu terytorialnego w Polsce po 2013 r. Poruszono zagadnienia dotyczące reguł fiskalnych dla jednostek samorządu terytorialnego, skuteczności funkcjonujących rozwiązań prawnych w zakresie ograniczania zadłużenia oraz absorpcji środków unijnych.
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The individual debt ratio for local government units was introduced in 2014 as an instrument of financial security of local government units and also takes into account the individual capacity of each local government unit to settle its liabilities. Nevertheless, its construction has come in for criticism, and the Ministry of Finance has announces modifications. This article identifies problems related to the indebtedness of local government units in Poland after 2013. The issues to be discussed include fiscal rules regarding local governments, the effectiveness of functioning legal solutions in the scope of debt reduction and the absorption of EU funds.
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