Fiscal issues are the most important political and economic issues.As a key pillar of the country's governance system and governance capacity,the proportion of central fiscal revenue is the economic foundation and main means to form the unified political will of the country,as well as one of the pillars of the country's macro-control.The proportion of the central fiscal revenue in the national fiscal revenue mainly depends on the political,economic and management factors,especially the state system and political system of China,namely the unitary state,the centralized state,the administrative power and expenditure responsibility undertaken by the central government,and the fiscal and economic management ability.Based on the historical experience over the past 70 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China,the appropriate range is for the central government to account for 45%~55% of the total public budget.Within this range,the proportion of central government revenue may not be adjusted,but it can be stabilized by adjusting the proportion of profits that state-owned enterprises,state-owned resources,and state-owned assets managed by the central government turn over to the state treasury.
LIN Guang-bin, CHE Guang-ye.
The Political Economy Analysis of the Proportion of Central Fiscal Revenue[J]. Journal of Central University of Finance & Economics, 2021, 0(4): 3-13