In the first of its new annual reports on local government finance, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has estimated councils will need an extra £4bn a year to maintain services, based on an inflationary council tax rise of 2% a year. That will be £18bn by the mid-2030s.
Council tax and business rates can’t rise fast enough to keep pace with soaring social care demands.
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