Germany is a federal state.

This is the only elected government body in the state, with local authorities being fully appointed by the state government owing to the suspension of local elections by the federal government.

Even in the US, state and local governments, and now the federal government, are cutting expenditure and reducing transfer payments.

Puerto Ricans who are not US government employees do not pay federal income tax, and the island s bonds are triple tax exempt (free of federal, state, and local taxes).

It is funded primarily with local and federal government funds.

Americans pay both federal taxes and state taxes.

Is this tactic of creating more local and federal offices enough?

The three branches of the government mentioned are the federal, state and local, which are supposedly coordinating to prevent crime and get justice.

The state and federal governments harassed these people for decades.

Leipzig ( ) is a city in the federal state of Saxony, Germany.

Weimar () is a city in the federal state of Thuringia, Germany.

Many state and local governments in poorer regions of the country are at risk of bankruptcy unless the federal government undertakes a massive bailout of their finances.

Indeed, the entire State Department budget is only 1 of the federal budget.

The BRH can only audit federal money, known to us as state funds.

State banks must provide 98 of all financing for local companies.

On 4 February 2003, the federal parliament of Yugoslavia created a loose state union State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.

In the US, the federal government has spent an estimated 34 billion since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to arm state and local police forces with battlefield grade hardware.

The measure, passed by Federal Court Judge Sharon Blackburn of Birmingham, Alabama, allows law enforcement agents, both state and local, to arrest those they suspect of not carrying legal documents.

Due to the shared sovereignty between each U.S. state and the U.S. federal government, an American is a citizen of both the federal republic and of his or her state of domicile.

By the National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage here in this federal state

Is it the Federal Republic of Ethiopia or the Republic of Dystopia (police state)?

This, it should be mentioned, does not imply that local and federal laws have been automatically rewritten.

Local governments and state owned enterprises do not necessarily have those concerns.

The state owned oil (Pemex) and electric power (Federal Electricity Commission) companies face no competition.

The State Traffic Safety Inspectorate and the Federal Registration Service will provide information on taxpayers.

On the contrary, state and local taxes actually increased over the past year.

The challenges faced at the state and local levels may be even greater.

Before entering politics, he worked with a local youth group in Karenni State.

Moreover, the federal government could boost California's economy by re directing its expenditures to that state.

This is how our local and federal agencies communicate when it comes to exchanging reliable information, the blogger concludes.

The Federal law arrived soon after several Russian regions had adopted local administrative sanctions against the promotion of homosexuality.

While local governments have been unable to borrow, locally controlled state investment companies can.

Public sector demand has also contracted, owing to state and local governments deteriorating budgets.

The country s home developers, local governments, and state owned enterprises are severely over indebted.

The initiative to introduce the testing was supported by State Duma members and the Federal Migration Services.

Finally, Obama advocated holding a national conversation on the question of state versus federal legislation on such issues.

Nevertheless, the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a secular state, as are almost all sub Saharan African states.

Currently, she is running for a seat in the State Duma, the lower house of Russia's federal parliament.

But most state and local governments that have experienced a collapse in tax revenues must sharply retrench spending by firing policemen, teachers, and firefighters while also cutting welfare benefits and social services for the poor. Many state and local governments in poorer regions of the country are at risk of bankruptcy unless the federal government undertakes a massive bailout of their finances.

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Many of the transfers from the federal government especially basic social support like food stamps vary little with the local business cycle.

But this has proved problematic for a number of reasons, among them how federal and local governments regulate such processes, says Gilliland.

To be sure, some of the blame for poor preparation belongs to state and local officials.

(e) The State alleged to be responsible has waived the requirement that local remedies be exhausted.

The key problem in Europe today is whether eurozone members will advance towards something resembling a federal nation state.