Although the Municipality of Bijelo Polje switched to temporary financing at the end of last year, the local administration told "Vijesti" that all obligations are being settled regularly, and the Municipality's budget, planned in the amount of 32.501.000 euros, which is almost 13 percent higher than the previous one, will be presented to the councilors at the session scheduled for January 31.
The temporary funding measure came after the Bosniak Party (BS) boycotted the session before the budget was adopted and told its coalition partner, the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS), that it was dissatisfied with the functioning of the government, after which it set out a series of conditions, the final acceptance or rejection of which is expected by Saturday.
As stated in the report by the Secretary of Finance Alida Nuhodzic, Own revenues, which in addition to real estate taxes include various fees and charges, as well as revenues generated by municipal authorities through their activities, are planned in the amount of 5.631.000 euros.
"We plan the real estate tax in the amount of 1.350.000 - it is planned in a larger amount by 150.000 euros more than the plan for 2025, the surtax on personal income tax in the amount of 440.000 and is at the level of the plan for 2025. The real estate transfer tax, which from January 2024, in accordance with the Law on Local Self-Government Financing, is the municipality's own revenue in the amount of 80 percent of the total revenue generated on that basis, we plan in the amount of 350.000, as per the plan for 2025.
"Taxes are planned in the amount of 95.000 euros, the same amount as planned for 2025. Fees for communal equipment of construction land are planned in the amount of 250.000, at the same level. The fee for the use of municipal roads is planned in the amount of 150.000 euros, at the level of the plan for 2025," Nuhodžić stated.
The Municipality plans to spend 8.300.000 euros on personal income tax, concession and other fees, and annual registration fees.
"We plan personal income tax in the amount of 7.480.000, 6,85 more than the plan for 2025. Fees from concession and other fees are planned in the amount of 700.000 euros, at the level for 2025."
The Equalization Fund is planned to be allocated in the amount of 7.800.000 euros.
The current budget is planned in the amount of 19.643.700 euros, and the capital budget in the amount of 12.857.300 euros.
"Current expenditures (gross salaries and contributions, other personal income, expenditures for materials and services, current maintenance, interest, rent, subsidies, other expenditures, transfers for social protection, transfers to institutions, individuals and the NGO sector) are planned in the amount of 16.841.700 euros. Expenditures for gross salaries are planned in the amount of 4.662.340 euros.
In addition to the regular servicing of current liabilities, new services are planned - Expenditures based on subsidies in the amount of 540.000 euros. These expenditures relate to certain programs for young married couples through subsidizing interest on housing loans in the amount of 320.000 euros for regulating housing issues, subsidies for high school students in the amount of 40.000 euros, the "My Doctor" project in the amount of 20.000 euros, as well as subsidies for pensioners as our oldest citizens in the amount of 80.000 euros," Nuhodžić stated.
This year, transfers for social protection are planned to be 40,46 percent higher than in the 2025 budget rebalance - in the amount of 524.200 euros, and the larger allocations relate to support for social housing, assistance to citizens in social need, as well as a new item in the budget - assistance to public kitchens, in the amount of 20.000 euros.
Transfers to institutions, individuals, NGOs and the public sector are planned in the amount of 8.620.550 euros.
The capital budget is planned to be 34,3 percent higher than the revised plan for last year and amounts to 12.857.300 euros.
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