the oblastlevel governments on the other hand generate their revenue from stable taxes connected directly to their territory taxes on real estate transport taxes property taxes personal income tax and so on almaty city has a budget of kzt billion for just over usd million of which almost kzt billion comes from the city s own revenues taxes individual revenues social tax and the sale of land assets table also shows that cities have different levels of dependence on central government transfers for of almaty city s income comes from taxes and from transfers