Presidency:Montreal

Vice-Presidency:Sao Paulo

The main mission of local and regional authorities is to provide services of quality to the citizens at reasonable cost. Dependently of competences and fields of activities of each authority, these services relate to culture, sport, leisure, urban waste, transportation, water, public safety, environment or parks to mention only these.

Moreover, in order to fully assume their responsibilities and to ensure the leading role of their city in the national and international economy, the local and metropolitan authorities must equip their city with adequate infrastructures; essential to the development. These infrastructures and the dynamism of the various economic agents, combined with favourable conditions, ensure the competitiveness of the city. These infrastructures relate to the sectors of transport, water, environment, telecommunications, culture but also that of dwelling.

Consequently, the local and regional authorities need adequate financial resources of a true financial and taxation autonomy. They must have the financial tools specific to large cities, decrease the tax burden of the individual and corporative taxpayers and make their city attractive for citizens and investors.

To this extent, they must cleanse their finances by acquiring approaches and modern management tools, by increasing their internal performance but also by establishing a true partnership with the government so that it endows them with taxation instruments adapted to their context and to the international economic situation.

OBJECTIVES

• To determine the financial problems of the cities well, while distinguishing the national and regional characteristics
• To examine the various taxation policies in force and the reforms planned in order to enhance tendencies and good practices
• To examine the cities? ways of making for in preparing their financial framework and especially in ensuring services of quality and establishing manoeuvring limits.
• To examine the taxation and no taxation sources of income.
• To analyze the ways in which cities plan their investments and finance their projects of infrastructures.
• To bring closer the cities the international sponsors.
• To contribute to the development and, if necessary, to the realization of the project Bank of the cities.