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Alternate Local Revenue Sources: User Charges

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Judith N. Collins
Judith N. Collins*
Affiliation:
Economic Development Division, Economics and Statistics Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
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User charges were the second most important source of local government own source revenue in 1977. Local governments in 1977 collected $19 billion in user charges, such as admission fees. This represented 16 percent of total revenue from own sources. The biggest revenue producer at the local level, the property tax, accounted for half of all locally raised revenue.

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Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , Spring 1982 , pp. 83 - 92
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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