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Preserve your assets

Raising income through maintaining assets could reduce the need to cut services. Adam Leeder explains how local authorities can achieve this feat.

Raising income through maintaining assets could reduce the need to cut services. Adam Leeder explains how local authorities can achieve this feat.

A newspaper headline about the recent TaxPayers' Alliance (TPA) report on assets owned by local authorities, which argued that it is ‘deeply hypocritical' for councils to hold sizeable asset portfolios at the same time as increasing council tax to protect services, caused a stir.

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