title: FINANCIAL DECENTRALIZATION AS A FUNDAMENTAL CONDITION FOR INDEPENDENCE OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES
abstract: The issues of decentralization are relevant from the standpoint of different legal sciences, particularly financial and legal. The democratic transformations taking place in Ukraine, the activation of the processes of formation of civil society institutions and the building of a democratic, social and legal state require a combination of all directions of modernization of contemporary Ukrainian society and an effective improvement of the mechanism of state power, which in turn requires adequate 