- Municipalities receive a good growth next year – Nationen

– This will give them a good growth, so they get covered expenses for pension and population growth. In addition, they receive a good growth in the free revenues, so they can prioritize locally what they think is most important, whether in schools or the elderly, says Sanner said.

4.5 to 5 billion of the growth comes as exempt income.

New model

Sanner introduced while a new tax model, which means that municipalities should retain a share of the local corporation.

– We want municipalities to have retain a share of local value creation. We believe it is important that the municipalities that facilitates local value creation, shall retain some of the gains. Today they get extra tax revenues when they facilitate housing construction and population growth, but all company tax goes to the state, says Sanner.

He stressed that the new scheme will first take effect from 2017.

Expecting efficiency

In the municipal bill for next year also underlines the government that it believes there is room for a more efficient use of resources in municipalities and says services could be enhanced if local authorities fail to take out efficiency potential.

It added that the government has clear expectations that local and regional authorities continually strives to utilize resources more efficiently.

Tax Failure

Monday warned Finance Minister Siv Jensen (FRP) that the government will compensate municipalities tax failure this year with 1.1 billion in the revised budget for 2015. The tax shortfall is estimated at a total of 1, 6 billion, but the government believes municipal real losses of 1.3 billion because municipalities while saving 300 million in wage and price inflation will be lower than expected.

– There should be no automatic that compensating for tax failure, but we have this year after an overall assessment chosen to strengthen municipal finances by 1, 1 billion, and it gives municipalities a good and predictable economy in 2015, says Sanner.

Of the frame increase of 1 , 1 billion allocated 907.8 million dollars to the municipalities, this distributed 54.8 million to municipalities with special losses resulting from the restructuring of the disability tax. 192.2 million dollars goes to the counties, and 4.9 million of this goes to compensation for ferry relief funds for four counties