Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Nataliya V. Golovanova
Author-Email: golovanova@nifi.ru
Author-Workplace-Name: Financial Research Institute, Moscow 127006, Russia
Title: Regional Road Funds: Should their Revenue Sources Be Determined at the Federal Level?
Abstract: The paper describes the history of regional road funds and subnational spending on road maintenance in Russia. It also discusses the practice of determining of the regional road funds size at the federal level and the options regions used to reduce their road funds in times of revenue shortages. On the basis of the analysis the author recommends to lift the restrictions setting the minimal size of regional road funds.
Classification-JEL: H76, R42, R53
Keywords: road fund, spending on road maintenance, excise taxes on petroleum products, transport tax, consolidated budget of the Russian Federation subject, regional budget
Journal: Finansovyj žhurnal — Financial Journal
Pages: 81-89
Issue: 6
Year: 2016
Month: December
File-URL: http://www.nifi.ru/images/FILES/Journal/Archive/2016/6/Statii/fm_2016_6_07.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
Handle: RePEc:fru:finjrn:160607:p:81-89