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Klappentext This book has two main aims: it seeks to relate central grants to the overall structure of taxes and expenditures of the economy! and it draws together a major set of empirical evidence on one major grant programme. Zusammenfassung This book has two main aims: first, it seeks to relate central grants to the overall structure of taxes and expenditures of the economy as a whole, and second, it draws together for the first time a major set of empirical evidence on one major grant programme standing at £12,000 million in 1982, the Rate Support Grant in England and Wales. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Central grants to local governments; Part I. Central Grants: Theory and Practice: 2. Categories of central grants; 3. The evolution of central grants and local finances in Britain; 4. The Rate Support Grant; 5. The distribution of the RSG since 1981; Part II. Distributional Effects of British Local Finance: 6. Local expenditure need; 7. Local taxes and expenditures; 8. The distribution of the Rate Support Grant; 9. Modelling expenditure and grants; Part III. Towards a More Rational Procedure: 10. An appraisal of alternatives; 11. An alternative structure for central-local relations; 12. The British experience of central grants - a way forward?; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
