What the state sends the municipalities

Much of local government is financed from the central budget. Article 53 of the budget act lists how much each municipality receives — 265 rows a year, since 2018. This page shows that table and orders it two ways.

Total or per resident — and why the two disagree

Sofia receives €718m, Treklyano €2.2m. Per resident that is €564 against €5,028: the ranking inverts ninefold. Both are true and neither is the whole story — a municipality of 434 people still needs a mayor's office and a school, and those costs do not shrink with the population. So the page offers both bases and says why they differ.

This is not debt, and it is not added to it

Separately from this page the site shows what municipalities owe — commitments, liabilities and arrears under art. 130g of the Public Finance Act. That is a different corpus at a different grain; adding the two produces a number that means nothing.

See also municipal financial standing and the municipal investment programme.

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