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<p>The article discusses the legal changes related to the finances of communes, introduced into the Polish legal order to counteract adverse social effects and the economic aspects of the SARSCoV–2 epidemic. It indicates the impact of new regulations on the website revenue for the budgets of municipalities and the powers of municipal authorities concerning, first and foremost, budget control and implementation. The solutions that were presented in detail have the goal of helping entrepreneurs most economically affected by the pandemic – such as the possibility of exemption from real estate tax by resolution of the commune council for part of 2020 and selected months of 2021, an extension of instalment payment deadlines for real estate tax, or the failure to collect the market fee in 2021. Essentially, only some of these solutions provide for financial compensation from the commune budgets. The consequences for the budgets of communes related to the changes indicated, in the context of the need to perform their tasks.</p>
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The article discusses the legal changes related to the finances of communes, introduced into the Polish legal order to counteract adverse social effects and the economic aspects of the SARSCoV–2 epidemic. It indicates the impact of new regulations on the website revenue for the budgets of municipalities and the powers of municipal authorities concerning, first and foremost, budget control and implementation. The solutions that were presented in detail have the goal of helping entrepreneurs most economically affected by the pandemic – such as the possibility of exemption from real estate tax by resolution of the commune council for part of 2020 and selected months of 2021, an extension of instalment payment deadlines for real estate tax, or the failure to collect the market fee in 2021. Essentially, only some of these solutions provide for financial compensation from the commune budgets. The consequences for the budgets of communes related to the changes indicated, in the context of the need to perform their tasks.

Special Legal Solutions Introduced in Regard to the Relationship with COVID-19 Affecting Municipal Budgets – Selected Issues

Białostockie Studia Prawnicze

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The article discusses the legal changes related to the finances of communes, introduced into the Polish legal order to counteract adverse social effects and...

Special Legal Solutions Introduced in Regard to the Relationship with COVID-19 Affecting Municipal Budgets – Selected Issues

Published Online: Nov 26, 2021

Page range: 163 - 178

Received: Jul 29, 2021

Accepted: Oct 30, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15290/bsp.2021.26.04.10

Keywords
budget of commune, impact of COVID to local finances, public finances, real estate tax

© 2021 Jadwiga Glumińska-Pawlic et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Special Legal Solutions Introduced in Regard to the Relationship with COVID-19 Affecting Municipal Budgets – Selected Issues

Published Online: Nov 26, 2021

Page range: 163 - 178

Received: Jul 29, 2021

Accepted: Oct 30, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15290/bsp.2021.26.04.10

Keywordsbudget of commune, impact of COVID to local finances, public finances, real estate tax

© 2021 Jadwiga Glumińska-Pawlic et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
budget of commune, impact of COVID to local finances, public finances, real estate tax