Ministers are to push ahead with plans that will pile fresh tax collecting burdens on English councils.
In a letter to housing secretary Michael Gove, the Conservative chairman of the Local Government Association (LGA), James Jamieson, railed against proposals for local authorities to act as the collection agency for the new building safety levy, which aims to raise £3bn over 10 years to ensure developers make a contribution towards remediating unsafe buildings.
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