Assessing the sustainability of revenues and expenditures of Shahinshahr Municipality

One of the most important issues for municipalities around the world is to earn a steady income to pay for municipal services. Excessive reliance of many municipalities on unsustainable municipal revenues has caused the financial problems. Studying the sustainable income sources of the world's municipalities and using the experiences of cities that have a similar structure to Shahinshahr city, can to some extent can solve the problems of Shahinshahr municipality. The present study was conducted in Shahinshahr city (spatial framework of the present study). The type of applied research and its study method is descriptive-analytical. Data collection has been done by two methods of documentation and field studies to investigate the causes of declining revenues and increasing municipal expenditures of the city municipality. In this regard, the study tools in the first stage are the books, valid and related journals, monthly magazines, dissertations, etc., and in the next stage by using and analyzing data related to the revenue and expenditure performance of Shahinshahr Municipality in different periods. Which was obtained from the municipality, Shahinshahr municipality has been studied from the financial and revenue dimensions And Finally, according to the existing conditions of Shahinshahr municipality and city, solutions in the field of sustainable and continuous income generation for Shahinshahr municipality will be provided.The results show that the revenue from general tolls (continuous tolls) is generally considered as a part of stable incomes, which has the highest revenue from the sale of goods and services and pollution tolls.