Primary municipalities see NOK 2.9 billion growth in tax revenues

Tax accounts for January to September show a 13.6 per cent increase in tax revenues compared to the same period last year. In monetary terms, tax income grew by NOK 24.4 billion. In the same period, the primary municipalities took in NOK 43.6 billion in taxes, up NOK 2.8 billion or 6.8 per cent. County tax revenues increased by NOK 0.9 billion.

Tax revenues including oil taxes from January to September totalled NOK 203.3 billion. Oil taxes account for NOK 18.9 billion or 9.3 per cent of total tax revenues.

Local government

The growth in tax revenues among counties, excluding the continental shelf, has increased 9.3 per cent. The county with the largest growth in tax income is Oslo, with 14.4 per cent, followed by Vest Agder and Akershus. Two counties have had growth rates under six per cent: Telemark, with 5.6 per cent and Sogn og Fjordane, with 4.7 per cent.

Tax revenues vary widely from municipality to municipality. Outside Oslo, only four counties (Østfold, Akershus, Vestfold and Sør-Trøndelag) have seen an increase in tax income. So far this year local governments have received NOK 61.4 billion in tax income, up NOK 3.7 billion from the same time last year. Broken down, the primary municipalities account for nearly NOK 2.8 billion or 76 per cent of the growth and the counties for about NOK 0.9 billion.

New Statistics

Tax accounts statistics, January-September 1997.
Statistics are published every month in the Weekly Bulletin of Statistics. Main aggregates are available in the Official Statistics of Norway (NOS) Monthly Bulletin of Statistics. Tax revenue data in the individual municipalities is published in the Official Statistics of Norway (NOS) Regional Statistics, in addition to the electronic edition of the Weekly Bulletin of Statistics on the Web. More information: Tove Brynhildsen, tel. +47 21 09 47 72, e-mail: tbr@ssb.no or Rune Bye, tel. +47 21 09 45 14, e-mail: rby@ssb.no.

Weekly Bulletin issue no. 43, 1997