Iceland 1930

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Identifikator:: 1830571079

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-221162

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Iceland 1930

Edition:: 2. ed.

Place of publication:: Reykjavík

Publisher:: Ríkisprentsmiđjan Gutenberg

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: 193 S.; Tab., Kt., Taf.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Document type:: Monograph

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Title:: State and municipal finance

Collection:: Economics Books

13 nature of taxes on real property, while in the rural districts there is the Parish Roads Tax, levied at so much per every able-bodied male in each parish. There is also a tax on dogs both in towns and country districts, but this tax is of minor importance, especially in the towns. The few local profit-yielding undertakings are all of a late date, and mostly of the nature of Water Works and Electrical Plants, besides the Gas Works and the public baths in Reykjavik. Almost one-fourth of the receipts of the parish funds (for the year 1926), or 428 thousand krénur, is paid into the district funds (spslusjédir), which, as there are no taxes payable to them directly, have no regular revenues worth mentioning, except this contribution. In 1926 the chief items of expenditure were as follows: Municipal Funds Parish Funds District Funds 1000 krénur 1000 krénur 1000 kronur Administration . Poor relief . . . Sanitation . . . . Education and Schools Roads » . . . . . Other communications Rural husbandry . . Fire service . . . . . Police . . . , . . . Interest on debt . . . Other expenditure | 205 387 346 120 137 65 513 64 192 106 10 any 209 *: 210 8 67 2 D 39 132 102 nn 35 “2 1138 9 Total expenditure 2 864 371 Total 1000 krénur 299 1100 620 630 510 52 57 103 132 476 2 4373 The current expenditure of municipalites, parishes, and districts thus amounts to nearly 4.4 million krénur. By far the biggest item in their accounts is the cost of poor relief, which absorbs 1.1 million krénur, or about one-fourth of the total disbursements. This burden is pro- portionally heavier in the rural than in the urban districts: namely one-third in the former, in the latter one-fifth of the current annual expenditure. Then come education and roads with rather more than 600 thousand krénur each, or one-seventh of the total outlay. Almost the whole expenditure on education is accounted for by the elementary schools, while the amount spent on sanitation includes the portion, 235 thousand krénur, payable by towns and districts towards defraying the cost of the campaign against tubercular diseases. Other items included under “Sanitation are grants made to hospitals and, to some extent to midwives also, and, in urban districts, such sums as are spent on scavenging and the cleaning of streets.

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