In 2024, the KDZ Center for Public Administration Research (kdz.eu) and IFIP (J. Bröthaler, M. Getzner) conducted a study on municipal financing in Upper Austria on behalf of the province of Upper Austria. This was recently discussed in a report by the Upper Austrian Court of Audit: “The Court of Audit considers the scientific preparation of the topic to be appropriate. In particular, organizations were selected for the preparation of the study that have many years of experience in the public sector and have already undertaken comparable activities in other provinces in the past. The Court of Audit finds that the project mandate was fulfilled in its entirety. The study provides a suitable basis for making concrete determinations within the framework of the new municipal financing.”

The study is available here:

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