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Examples of the costs of direct subsidies to candidates and political parties are as follows. They exclude the additional expense for tax-payers of subsidies-in-kind and other forms of indirect assistance. 24
- Australia (1992-93) - AUS $ 14.2 million.
- Austria (1989) - About 970 million schillings (including grants to party newspapers).
- Canada (1993) - CAN $30.5 million. Approximately $10.5 million of this was for reimbursements to registered political parties and $20 million to candidates.
- France (1989) - FF 105.6 million
- Germany (1994) - Direct public funding of parties represented in the Bundestag was DM 332.2 million. Including certain indirect items such as party taxes, see Party Taxes and tax concessions, see Tax Concessions, the total amounted to DM 607.2 million. The figure is even higher if state grants to the political foundations are taken into account, see Political Foundations.
- Greece (1993) - 10.7 billion drachmae
- Italy (1995) - The total budgeted for the reimbursement funds was 91 billion lire.
- Japan (1994) - Under the 1994 Law Concerning Financial Assistance to Political Parties, the total amount of public financing was limited to Japanese Yen 30.9 billion.
- Mexico (1994) - The General Council of the Federal Electoral Institute decided in January 1994 to set the total public financing at U.S. $ 67 million. Expenditures in 1994 on the public financing of Mexican political parties amounted to U.S. $ 59.6.
- Spain (1993) - Public funding was 12.009 billion pesetas, compared with 1.7 billion in 1980.
- Sweden (1990-91) - Direct funding to political parties was SKr 132 million.
- United States (1988) - U.S.$ 92.2 million on Democratic and Republican presidential election campaigns.
