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FINANCE
Blackpool's business loan fund increases to £100m
By Mark Conrad | 14 February 2017
Blackpool Council has significantly increased the value of its business loan fund to help local c...
BUSINESS
MPs say 'no' to rates levy spend for housing
By Mark Conrad | 14 February 2017
MPs have rejected calls to allow the infrastructure levy to be spent on housing under 100% busine...
FINANCE
How much will change under 100% business rate retention?
By Norma Atlay | 14 February 2017
Norma Atlay asks whether the new funding system for local government is a case of the emperor's n...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
Hodge denies pilot deal to drop tax referendum
By Sam Clayden | 14 February 2017
Surrey CC leader David Hodge has batted away claims his authority was offered a business rates pi...
WHITEHALL
Call for 'ability to pay' model
By Jamie Hailstone | 08 February 2017
Shadow local government minister Jim McMahon has called for a new model of council funding based ...
BUSINESS
Charities probed over business rates avoidance
By Dan Peters | 08 February 2017
Five charities are being investigated for putting their funds at risk due to suspected business r...
FINANCE
EXCLUSIVE: 'It's make or break time' - annual finance survey
By Dan Peters | 08 February 2017
Results of the latest LGiU/The MJ annual finance survey lead to stark warnings on the fiscal futu...
FINANCE
Stymied by out-dated business rates
By Heather Jameson | 01 February 2017
Heather Jameson argues local government funding must move away from mechanisms of a bygone age.
FINANCE
'Incentivising growth' key to rates retention
By James Evison | 01 February 2017
The challenge of moving to 100% business rates retention will be how to incentive ‘all kinds of g...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Brexit 'must work for councils'
By Mark Conrad | 01 February 2017
Prime minister Theresa May’s Brexit negotiations must secure beneficial access to the European Un...
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