Appendix table 1. External quarterly data on the finances of municipalities and joint municipal authorities in Mainland Finland (internal items eliminated), EUR million ¹⁾

	Municipalities		Joint municipal authorities
	2020	Change, %	2020	Change, %
Operating revenue total	6 925	-3,8	16 872	1,9
Operating expenses total	38 546	1,7	16 196	1,9
Operating margin (+/-)	-31 303	3,1	685	3,4
Tax revenue	23 825	4,0
Central government transfers to local government	10 992	27,2
Financing income	700	-7,3	22	-19,7
Financing expenses	219	7,7	112	3,0
Annual contributing margin (+/-)	3 995	128,6	595	2,4
Depreciations and reductions in value	2 339	1,4	673	8,0
Extraordinary items (+/-)	76	-80,8	5	-22,1
Financial result for the accounting period (+/-)	1 732	-1 155,5	-73	105,6
Investment expenses total	4 233	4,6	1 437	6,3
Loan stock, at the end of the quarter	19 112	3,8	5 495	17,5

1) Local government enterprises were combined to the data and internal items were eliminated. The data concerning 2020 are financial statement estimates. Changes are calculated compared to the final financial statement data of the previous year.

Source: Quarterly local government finances, 4th quarter 2020, Statistics Finland

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Updated 10.2.2021