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Beijing restructures fiscal transfers to local governments

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Beijing is restructuring the way it allocates transfer payments to local governments. Some background: China's local governments collects about half of all tax revenue, but are responsible for about 80% of expenditures. They make up the shortfall with funds transferred from Beijing. Those transfers ...