User talk:Tina81
Re: A question for Joy.....
[edit]Hi,
First of all - welcome to Wikipedia. :)
You're right, we don't have much about the Croatian local government on Wikipedia, but that's because it's so minor :)
Counties are divided into municipalities (pl. općine, sing. općina) and towns (pl. gradovi, sing. grad). Each municipality has a council (vijeće) and chief (načelnik). Each town has the same, but their chief is called the mayor (gradonačelnik).
The local government units take care of low-level, mundane issues such as sanitation etc, and their budgets are relatively tiny compared to the larger units. Towns are better off - their budget is affected by the local economy because all businesses pay a small amount of income tax specifically to them, this is called 'prirez'.
The prirez amounts to between 5% (small towns) and 18% (Zagreb) of the taxable income. This is in addition to the main part of the income tax, which is generally pretty high in Croatia.
If there's anything else you wish to know, please feel free to ask. --Joy [shallot] 17:28, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
Re: another question :)
[edit]Yes, each županija has a župan etc, this is described at Counties of Croatia#Organization.
I'm not sure how many municipalities there are, sorry. You could probably count the number of entries in Municipalities of Croatia *shrug* :) It might be possible to find the official count somewhere at http://www.dzs.hr/, that's the State Statistics Bureau, they keep track of these kinds of things.