Page 67 - kpi16531

0 นวัตกรรมการพัฒนารายได้
ขององค์กรปกครองส่วนท้องถิ่น

New Approach to the Development of Local Government

Revenue

4 categories of the Local Revenues:
1) User Charges
2) Local Public Enterprises and Social Enterprises

3) Local Economic Development
4) Loans and Bonds

1. User Charges

Definition and concepts: User Charges

= Definition of “User Charges”

“User Charges” in the context of the local management is made up of four key
aspects:
1) The charge of obtaining or using public services;

2) The charge paid by the user of the public services;
3) The public services provided by the local government;
4) The public services compliant with the responsibility of the local government.

In short, “User Charges” is the collection of local revenues from the use of public
services provided by the local government.

= Advantages of User Charges

The User Charges is a way for the development of local government revenue by
helping the local government increase its revenues and balance between the revenue and the

expenditure, leading to better self-reliance. Other advantages are: 1) Promote the efficient
use of local natural resources to provide public services; 2) Realize the actual amount of the
local demand for public services; 3) Create public awareness on savings resources of public

services to reduce wasteful consumption; 4) Demonstrate the transparent management of
public services through the actual costs and values of the public services, and 5) Exclude
people who do not use the public services from irrelevant costs.

= Limitations on the use of public service charges

Besides advantages, there are some limitations in this revenue collection: 1) Not

suitable for certain types of public services that can not specify the use in units or those that
come with high costs; 2) Limited access to public services; 3) Conceived as double taxation;
and 4) Lack of public collaboration to pay the fees of public services.