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The article presents an analysis of the national budget guidelines with economic and fiscal policies released by the Croatian government on February 2016.

The Government annually adopts a Decision on the Minimum Financial Standards, Criteria and Benchmarks for Decentralised Funding of Homes for the Elderly and Infirm. The decision governs the funding of the nursing homes for which the founding rights have been transferred from government to counties and the City of Zagreb. Previously, this decision comprised the planned revenues and expenditures of the homes by county. However, the decision for 2017, as well as the recently published Decision for 2018, only specify the differences between the homes' revenues and expenditures to be allocated from budgets of the counties and the City of Zagreb (a total of HRK 164.5m in 2018). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the open budget index (OBI), an indicator for periodic measurement of openness of central government budget by nonprofit organization International Budget Partnership (IBP) reveals the declining performance of Croatian government in terms of transparency of national budget.

The article discusses the preliminary results published by the government of Croatia on the Clean Start project which was initiated with the idea of propagating management efficiency and established state of affairs before January 1, 2013. Results suggest that the government must improve the asset and liability records of state and public enterprises in the country. It also advised the activation of public debt management and financial management in budgetary users and state-owned companies.

On May 10, the Government discussed the Annual Report on Republic of Croatia's 2011 Budget Execution, expected to be the basis for drawing up a Government Programmes Strategy and 2013-2015 Economic ad Fiscal Policy Guidelines, which will clearly indicate the course of fiscal consolidation policies and measures aimed at achieving more efficient government and a competitive economy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a proposal submitted by the government of Croatia regarding amendment to a law on financing of units of regional and local self-government. Topics discussed include revenue distribution on the development index, change in status of hill and mountain areas (HMA) and areas of special national concern (ASNC), changes in distribution of real estate transfer tax and a table on distribution of personal income tax revenues.