Abstract
This article will show the basic principles and existing types of decentralization of power, and also show models of their organization and the experience of individual states. The main historical stages of decentralization in Kazakhstan, existing approaches to the impact of decentralization on life and the general political situation in the country will be proposed.An analysis of legislative acts on local government and self-government was carried out, their positive and negative principles, the powers of organizing the work of local government and self-government bodies in Kazakhstan were determined.There will be recommendations and reasonable proposals for the division of powers between various levels of executive and representative bodies of local government. Proposals for a model of inter-budgetary relations at the local level and new sources of replenishment of the local budget. Strengthening the communal property of local authorities.