Nonproperty Tax Revenue Sources

Table 13
NOHN-TAX REVENUES DETAILED FOR ALL LOCAL GOVERNMENT
1970-1971 .
(amounts ia billions of dollars)

Percent of Toto!
Revanue Source General Revenue

Total General Revenue 100.0

Charges & Mise. General Revenue
Current charges
Education
School Lunch Sales
Institutions of Higher Ed:
Other
Hospitals
Sewerage
Sanitation Other than S
Local Parks and Recreation
Natural Resources
Housing and Urban Renewal
Ait Transportation
Water Transport and Terminals
Parking Facilities
Other
Miscellaneous General Revenue
Special Assessments
Sate of Property
Interest Eamings

Other 1.6

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Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Governmental Finances in 1970-72, P. 20.

Hospitals administered by the government concerned generate some revenues
and, thus, accounted for 2.8 percent of torel general revenues in 1971.

Sanitation, by definition of the Burcau of the Census, comprises revenues
received for activities connected with the collection and disposal of garbage and
other waste. Sewerage revenues are derived from the provision of sanitary and
storm sewers and sewage disposal facilities and services. These two sources in
1971 accounted for 1.5 percent of oral general revenues.

Local Parks and Recreation include revenues gencrated by muscums, art
galleries, swimming pools, municipal parks, and special facilities for recreation,

such as auditoriums, stadiums, and harhors. This category produced 0.3 of total
general revenues in 1971.

Natural resources revenues are generated by concessions in parklands and
bird sanctuaries and accounted for 0.1 percent of total general revenue in 1971.

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