%0 Journal Article %T Revenue from user charges for local services and expenditures in large Polish cities %A Będzieszak, Marcin %J Public Management %V 2015 %R 10.4467/20843968ZP.15.013.3584 %N Issue 2 (30) %P 151-163 %K fees, user charges, local finance, local government services %@ 1896-0200 %D 2015 %U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/zarzadzanie-publiczne/article/dochody-z-oplat-za-uslugi-samorzadowe-a-poziom-wydatkow-w-miastach-na-prawach-powiatow %X This article reviews the literature on relations between user charges and expenditures for local services, which allowed to formulate the expected directions of relations in order to conduct a research in a group of 65 cities. The study negatively verified the hypothesis of a negative relationship between revenues from user charges and expenditures on the services, both globally and for selected services.