Regional Budgets: Results of 2019, Prospects for 2020

Abstract

In 2019 the regional budgets revenues grew at a high rate, including due to the outpacing growth of Federal transfers under the condition of the economic recession. Corporate income tax, personal income tax and excise tax receipts provided the growth of own income, while property tax receipts decreased. The growth rate of regional budget expenditures was significantly faster than the growth rate of revenues. The priorities of the subjects of the Russian Federation were healthcare and the national economy. High growth rates of expenditures did not always lead to an increase in the volume of public debt – its total amount decreased by the end of the year. Only in some regions of the Russian Federation there was a significant increase in the amount of debt. Estimates of possible budget revenue losses that regions will inevitably face in the context of the impending economic crisis allow us to identify a group of Russian regions for which these problems will be most acute.