Les governments, ensemble ou un à un.
The words on this page: 11 definitions, including 2 acronyms, no jargon
- City
- On this site, "city" means ALL the governments that serve a person who lives there: national, regional and municipal together. When we write "Montreal", that set is what we mean.
- Municipality
- The city hall alone, and nothing else. Its revenue, its spending, its debt. That is a small part of what a resident carries: the rest comes from the other two governments.
- Tier
- One of the governments that administer you. Here there are up to three: national, regional (province, state, Land…) and municipal. Each collects its own taxes and pays its own services.
- Per capita
- The total amount divided by the number of people. Note: each government is divided by the Population of ITS territory: the national one by the whole country, the city by its residents only.
- Resident public footprint
- Our way of adding the three governments to give an order of magnitude. This is not an official account: these are three calculations on three different populations, placed end to end.
- Scope
- What is counted and what is not. "MUNICIPAL ONLY" counts only the municipality; "all governments" adds the province and the federal tier. Two very different amounts can both be right.
- Vintage
- The financial year of the figure: the fiscal year the report covers. It is not always the same from one government to another, and the page writes it each time.
- Own revenue
- Money a government collects itself: taxes, levies, fees, fines. What it receives from another government is excluded, otherwise the same tax would be counted twice.
- Transfer
- Money one government pays to another: for example Ottawa paying Quebec for health. This is not a new tax: it is a tax already collected, moved.
- GFSM
- Government Funds Statistics Manual: the IMF standard that defines how to consolidate public accounts
- S13
- the European code for all of a country's general government, every layer together
Buffalo City Government Stack
The public administrations around Buffalo City residents.
South Africa: consolidated government (national and provinces, excluding municipalities) · Buffalo City
Government StackCity only
Les public finances autour of a resident de Buffalo City.
Indicateur du Stack, construit à partir des moyennes par habitant (Afrique du Sud: gouvernement consolidé (national et provinces, hors municipalités) ÷ 64.0M, Buffalo City ÷ 975,255). Ce n'est pas la dépense mesurée dans Buffalo City, ni une consolidation GFSM, ni une facture fiscale personnelle.
No defensible Stack total for this perimeter: figures by administration below.
- South Africa: consolidated government (national and provinces, excluding municipalities) (÷ 64.0M)
- Buffalo City (÷ 975,255)
No published reconciliation ledger for a Stack total: the participating administrations are shown separately.
CALCULATIONS AND EVIDENCEFinancial analysis, calculations and evidenceOpen calculations and evidenceReplier
Sous ce bouton: le contrôle de plafond, ce qui ressort des comptes, le solde de chaque palier, le bilan par palier et la qualité de la fiche. Each figure porte son scope (city, pile des paliers, province, aire urbaine ou pays), son exercice et son unité. D'où vient chaque montant est écrit plus haut, au source ledger.
Who governs here: 4 institution(s) · 1 not additive · 3 with no connected fiscal data
| Tier | Revenue/res. | Spending/res. | Balance/res. | Fiscal year | Status | Source | Calcul |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 South Africa (national) | ZAR 32,600 | ZAR 37,933 | −ZAR 5,333 | 2024-25 | AUDITEDValue from audited financial statements or a final official accounting return. | API | revenue 2,053,800 mn · spending 2,389,800 mn · balance -336,000 mn ÷ 63,000,000 hab |
| Buffalo City | ZAR 9,591 | ZAR 11,044 | −ZAR 1,453 | 2024 | AUDITEDValue from audited financial statements or a final official accounting return. | API | revenue 9,353 mn · spending 10,771 mn · balance -1,417 mn ÷ 975,255 hab |
| Resident public footprint (Spending by category) | ZAR 41,210 | ZAR 48,380 | −ZAR 7,170 | by tier | not published | footprint GovXRay | La même formule que Dépenses par catégorie (G = T + D, module consolide): all-purpose spending G 48,380 − own-source revenue T 41,210 = 7,170 ZAR/res.. NE PAS additionner avec les lignes par palier: chacune divise par SA population et porte SON fiscal year; their sum is not the resident's deficit. |
Fact receipt
Claim Stack: bodies_only
Indicateur du Stack, construit à partir des moyennes par habitant (Afrique du Sud: gouvernement consolidé (national et provinces, hors municipalités) ÷ 64.0M, Buffalo City ÷ 975,255). Ce n'est pas la dépense mesurée dans Buffalo City, ni une consolidation GFSM, ni une facture fiscale personnelle.
No published reconciliation ledger for a Stack total: the participating administrations are shown separately.
- Total Stack combiné: No published reconciliation ledger for a Stack total: the participating administrations are shown separately. (South Africa: consolidated government (national and provinces, excluding municipalities) · Buffalo City)
WHERE THE FIGURES COME FROMOpen the official receipt, tier by tier
Each tier is a menu: closed, you read its name, vintage and Population; open, its line items. Each row is one line from the official accounts of un tier: tax, levy, contribution or deficit: divided by the Population of ce tier. National-tier tax ÷ the Population of the whole country is not what a resident of this city pays; a tax the city itself levies ÷ its own Population is closer. Native currency first. Transfers change height because the payer and the recipient do not share a Population: same money, two denominators.
Phone: the line, its kind, the calculation. The source note is on the calculation hover.
South Africa: consolidated government (national and provinces, excluding municipalities)2 line items in this tier
| What it is | Nature | Official ÷ Population = /res. | Where the amount comes from |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consolidated government revenue (2024/25) | revenue | n/d ÷ 64.0 M = 31,619 | 2,023.9 Md ZAR: current receipts 2,023.1 Md ZAR + capital receipts 746 M ZAR (National Treasury, Budget time series T9, 2024/25). ÷ 64,007,187 residents (UN WPP 2024, Population at 1 July 2024 (demographics_raw)). Breakdown by source: coming soon (T2/T3 non on disque, named). |
| Deficit (consolidated government, named derivation) | deficit (borrowing) | 365.9 Md ÷ 64.0 M = 5,718 | 365.9 Md ZAR: Σ spending by function T8 (2,389.8 Md ZAR) − revenue T9 (2,023.9 Md ZAR). Comprend l'écart de périmètre T8 vs T9 de la source (29.9 Md ZAR), named, never lissé; budget balance T9: -336.0 Md ZAR.. ZAR: Σ spending by function T8 (2,389.8 Md ZAR) − revenue T9 (2,023.9 Md ZAR). Comprend l'écart de périmètre T8 vs T9 de la source (29.9 Md ZAR), named, never lissé; budget balance T9: -336.0 Md ZAR. |
Buffalo City5 line items in this tier
| What it is | Nature | Official ÷ Population = /res. | Where the amount comes from |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fees, charges and sales | revenue | n/d ÷ 975,255 = 5,206 | 54.3 % de la recette du palier: postes mSCOA lus dans le cube (pont nommé). 9.4 Md ZAR: item 2900 Total Revenue (excluding capital transfers and contributions), AUDA, exercice clos le 30 June 2024 (Municipal Money incexp_v2). Transferts en capital 4600/4700 (855 M ZAR) à part, named. ÷ 975,255 residents (Stats SA, recensement 2022, named). · source detail: 0300 Service charges - Electricity 2,385.3 M; 0400 Service charges - Water 918.4 M; 0500 Service charges - Waste Water Management 559.1 M; 0600 Service charges - Waste Management 470.9 M; 0700 Sale of Goods and Rendering of Services 123.5 M; 0800 Agency services 19.5 M; 1000 Interest earned from Receivables 389.1 M; 1100 Interest earned from Current and Non Current Assets 51.6 M; 1400 Rental from Fixed Assets 23.2 M; 1590 Development Charges 0.3 M; 1600 Operational Revenue 57.2 M; 2000 Fines, penalties and forfeits 65.4 M; 2100 Licences or permits 13.7 M |
| Taxes and levies | revenue | n/d ÷ 975,255 = 2,182 | 22.7 % de la recette du palier: postes mSCOA lus dans le cube (pont nommé). 9.4 Md ZAR: item 2900 Total Revenue (excluding capital transfers and contributions), AUDA, exercice clos le 30 June 2024 (Municipal Money incexp_v2). Transferts en capital 4600/4700 (855 M ZAR) à part, named. ÷ 975,255 residents (Stats SA, recensement 2022, named). · source detail: 1800 Property rates 2,127.6 M |
| Grants and transfers received | revenue | n/d ÷ 975,255 = 2,179 | 22.7 % de la recette du palier: postes mSCOA lus dans le cube (pont nommé). 9.4 Md ZAR: item 2900 Total Revenue (excluding capital transfers and contributions), AUDA, exercice clos le 30 June 2024 (Municipal Money incexp_v2). Transferts en capital 4600/4700 (855 M ZAR) à part, named. ÷ 975,255 residents (Stats SA, recensement 2022, named). · source detail: 2200 Transfer and subsidies - Operational 1,382.9 M; 2400 Fuel Levy 741.9 M |
| Other and capital | revenue | n/d ÷ 975,255 = 24 | 0.3 % de la recette du palier: postes mSCOA lus dans le cube (pont nommé). 9.4 Md ZAR: item 2900 Total Revenue (excluding capital transfers and contributions), AUDA, exercice clos le 30 June 2024 (Municipal Money incexp_v2). Transferts en capital 4600/4700 (855 M ZAR) à part, named. ÷ 975,255 residents (Stats SA, recensement 2022, named). · source detail: 2600 Gains on Disposal of Fixed and Intangible Assets 0.1 M; 2700 Other Gains 23.4 M |
| Deficit: Buffalo City | deficit (borrowing) | 1.4 Md ÷ 975,255 = 1,453 | 1.4 Md ZAR: 4400 Total Expenditure − 2900 (item 4500 Surplus/(Deficit) of the source).. ZAR: 4400 Total Expenditure − 2900 (item 4500 Surplus/(Deficit) of the source). |
Deux comptes juridiques distincts, never added together. Gouvernement consolidé (National Treasury, T8/T9 2024/25, April → March) ÷ population du pays (ONU WPP 2024, named); Buffalo City (Municipal Money AUDA, exercice clos le 30 June 2024) ÷ recensement Stats SA 2022 (nommé). Les provinces sont DANS le consolidé (pas de compte provincial par fonction sur disque): absence nommée. Dépenses de la métropole par fonction mSCOA (item 4400), revenue by poste mSCOA (item 2900, outside transfers en capital, named). Gross financial debt de Buffalo City (bilan GRAP, financial_position_v2 AUDA 2024): 109 M ZAR.
National Treasury (Budget time series T8/T9; Municipal Money incexp_v2, financial_position_v2): relevés za_palier_national, za_metros_Flows, za_metros_functions, za_bilan