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Local government finance

Budgets and spending

We do not yet publish a budget figure for any Bicol LGU. The data exists, at BLGF and DBM, and we have not pulled it. Saying that plainly is better than filling this page with national averages and calling it local.

What is missing and when it landsTwo datasets would make this page real: the BLGF Statement of Receipts and Expenditures, which gives actual income and spending per LGU, and the DBM National Tax Allotment shares, which are the largest revenue line for most LGUs in this region. Both are public. Neither is in a form you can query, which is why they are work rather than a link. Both are listed on our data sources page with their current status.

The one money figure we do have

National infrastructure spending in Bicol

DPWH contracts are not the LGU budget. They are national money spent in the region, and they are the one spending dataset we have pulled in full and verified row by row.

Contracts
17,200since infrastructure year 2016
Total value
₱530.26Bcontract amounts
Per resident
₱87,438across 6,064,426 people, computed
Unattributed
₱158.06Bno province on the record
See the full breakdownFlood control spending

How to read an LGU budget

Where a Philippine LGU gets its money

Four lines account for nearly all of it. Knowing which line is which tells you more about an LGU than the total does.

National Tax Allotment

The LGU’s share of national internal revenue, formerly the IRA. For most municipalities in Bicol this is the majority of the budget, which means local revenue effort barely moves the total.

Local sources

Real property tax, business tax, fees and charges. The share of the budget that comes from here is the single best measure of an LGU’s fiscal independence.

Special Education Fund

A one percent levy on real property, earmarked for education and administered by a Local School Board. It is separate from the general fund and gets disclosed separately.

Local Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Fund

Five percent of estimated revenue, set aside for disaster work. Seventy percent is for preparedness and mitigation, thirty percent is a quick response fund. In Bicol this is the line to watch.

Where these are published. All four appear in the Full Disclosure Policy postings every LGU is required to make. The eleven required documents lists the full set and where it is supposed to go.