(KZN.RU,
April 12, Alsu Safina). Deputies of the Kazan City Duma approved the report on
the execution of the budget for 2016 today at the XV session. The budget of
Kazan for 2016 was executed on incomes in the amount of 22 billion 405 million
731 thousand rubles, on expenses - in the amount of 21 billion 824 million 633
thousand rubles with excess of income over expenses (budget surplus of the
municipal entity of Kazan) in the amount of 581.1 million rubles.
“2016 was
expected to be rather complicated, and the Executive Committee took measures to
ensure the completeness of income receipt to the city budget in the conditions
of an unstable economic situation. The stable dynamics of income receipt not
only in the budget of the city but also in higher budgets was provided due to
constant systematic work”,"said Radik Shafigullin, the head of the
Financial Department.
He said
that in 2016, 135.5 billion tax revenues were mobilized from the city. Over the
year, the increase in tax revenues amounted to more than 18 billion rubles, 11
billion of which were the VAT, 3 billion - various types of excise taxes, and 4
billion rubles – an income tax. All these payments are credited to higher
budgets.
R.
Shafigullin reminded that the budget for 2016 was approved for income and
expenses in a balanced way, amounting to 19 billion 316 million rubles. The
execution of income amounted to 22 billion 406 million rubles, 60% of which -
the city's own revenues (tax and non-tax), and 40% - free of charge transfers
from higher budgets. The difference between the adopted and fulfilled budget
amounted to 3 billion 90 million rubles, including 644 million rubles - the
city's own revenues, 2 billion 446 million rubles – the financial assistance.
R.
Shafigullin said that the income from personal income taxes amounted to 4
billion 40 million rubles. Kazan has the highest growth rate for this tax among
the cities with a million-population - 110.6 by 2015.
The head of
the Financial Department also said that if the income for individuals' income
increased last year due to the growth of wages, the income of land tax
decreased. Answering the question of the deputy Bulat Kutdusov on the reasons
of this, R. Shafigullin explained that this is due to the practice of
challenging the cadastral value of land plots. “Losses in the courts amounted
to almost 60 million rubles only in 2016”, he said, adding that this trend is
also observed in other cities.
“The fall
of a land tax in 2016 compared with 2015 is observed in 9 cities among 13
cities with million-population”, said R. Shafigullin. “Even taking into account
the decrease in the revenues of the land tax, Kazan is on the first place among
the cities with a million-population in its volume”.
The volume
of taxes on total income amounted to 1 billion 913 million rubles. Compared to
2015, revenues increased by 8%, or by 136 million rubles.
As for
non-tax revenues, the trend of decreasing their income has been outlined in
recent years. “The main part of non-tax revenues is formed through the use and
sale of municipal property. Over the past 5 years, the share of non-tax
revenues in MFs own budget revenues has decreased from 27% in 2012 to 22% in
the past period”, he said.
The volume
of gratuitous income from higher budgets last year amounted to 9 billion 61
million rubles.
The volume
of expenditures of the Kazan budget for 2016 amounted to 21 billion 825 million
rubles, almost 60% of which was spent on education, 11% - on landscaping, 10% -
on national expenditures, and 7% - on housing.
Radik
Shafigullin said that the budget expenditures under the “Education’ section
amounted to 12 billion 376 million rubles. He reminded that in Kazan there are
324 kindergartens, which are visited by more than 68 thousand pupils, 167
schools, in which 112 thousand children are studying, and 106 institutions of
additional education, in which about 100 thousand children are engaged. 78%
fall on labor in the structure of expenditures of the budget for education, 8%
- on utility payments, 4% - on payment of taxes, and 3% - on expenses for food.
In addition, expenses for the current repairs of educational institutions
amounted to 217 million rubles last year. “This is the largest amount of funds
that we sent for these purposes over past 10 years”, added R. Shafigullin.
Expenditures
in the field of youth policy amounted to 441 million rubles. Now, 5 youth
policy institutions operate in Kazan, which unite 57 teenage clubs and 12
health camps. The cost of maintaining these institutions amounted to 236
million rubles, and 184 million rubles was spent on the organization of
recreation of 37,000 children in health camps.
Expenses
for the improvement amounted to 2 billion 359 million rubles, 1 billion 418
million rubles of which were directed to the current maintenance and repair of
roads and road infrastructure.
“Also, the
costs of maintaining and repairing street lighting facilities, green spaces,
fountains, modular toilet pavilions, irrigation systems for green areas, small
architectural forms, cemeteries, liquidation of spontaneous landfills, floral
and New Year decorations of the city, and snow utilization are carried out at
the expense of the budget. The amount of funds, allocated for these purposes,
is 922 million rubles. In addition, 19 million rubles were allocated for the
installation of safety fences and bus-stops”, said R. Shafigullin.
1 billion
523 million rubles was spent on housing and communal services, billion 118
million rubles of which 1 is for the cost of resettlement of citizens from an emergency
housing, and 395 million rubles is for major repairs of apartment buildings.
Expenditures
on the division of social policy amounted to 1 billion 179 million rubles.
These funds were used to ensure equal access to public transport services for
certain categories of citizens, to provide full-fledged hot meals for certain
categories of schoolchildren, and other purposes.
Expenditures
under the section “Culture” amounted to 494 million rubles, 414 million of
which is for the maintenance of cultural institutions. 80 million rubles was
spent on holding citywide events.
As for the
section “Transport”, the volume of expenses there amounted to 483 million
rubles.
R.
Shafigullin also reported that budget funds in the amount of 270 million rubles
to pay property taxes were released in 2016 due to the decision to transfer the
objects of improvement (the street-road network, safety fences, bus-stops, road
signs, sewers, and lighting networks) to the municipal treasury. “If earlier
budget expenditures for these purposes amounted to 275 million rubles, now we
are spending only 5 million rubles from the budget”, he explained.
“The
measures taken in the process of budget execution allowed us to fully finance
all planned budget expenditures, while preserving its social focus and attract
federal and republican funds for the realization of our powers”, said R.
Shafigullin.
“The budget
of the city was very tense. We had to implement it in a difficult economic
environment. We managed to fulfill all our commitments and, the main thing, to
not reduce the measures of social support. Not a single program was closed”,
noted Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan.