INESS released the Bill for Government Services for 2012. The annual price of the state for Slovakia increased by 2% and reached € 4,382 per citizen.

The Bill has been distributed by Slovak major opinion making daily SME in January 2012 in printed form, reaching more than 70 000 readers.

The goal of the project is to explain that there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch provided by state and to inform general public on the costs of the public services by using this specific visual form. It uses per citizen calculation, that enables better understanding of each taxpayer´s share on financing the public services.

At the same time, it highlights enormous deficit financing of the public sector and growing debt.

The Bill for Government Services is a part of The Price of the State internet project operated by INESS that can be found at www.priceofthestate.org