ECONOMIC GROWTH

Leaving Las Vegas

By Tony Kirkham | 17 March 2015

Tony Kirkham reflects on reforming the business rates system through the prism of poker skills an...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

'Radical' business rates review launched

By Jonathan Werran | 16 March 2015

Ministers have today promised a ‘radical review’ of business rates could change how firms across ...

FINANCE

Finance nausea

By Peter Stuart | 10 March 2015

A local government landscape where so many reference points are moving and shifting at the behest...

HOUSING

Collective responsibilities

By Abdool Kara | 10 March 2015

Abdool Kara sets out three example areas - New Homes Bonus, business rates and sector-led improve...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Going south can be profitable

By Cllr Gordon Keymer | 03 March 2015

In recent weeks, chief secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander, called on cities to ‘step forwa...

WHITEHALL

Firms back business rates devolution

By Jamie Hailstone | 02 March 2015

More than two thirds of UK firms have backed the Local Government Association’s (LGA) call to dev...

FINANCE

No action is no option

By Heather Jameson | 25 February 2015

Recommendations by the Independent Commission on Local Government Finance pull together current t...

FINANCE

Beware of killing the golden goose…

By Michael Burton | 24 February 2015

With local government left as the only major part of the public sector that is unprotected, Micha...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Business chiefs demand business rates review timetable

By Jonathan Werran | 23 February 2015

Business leaders have written to George Osborne calling on the chancellor to restate his commitme...

FINANCE

Councils predict business rates bonanza

By Jamie Hailstone | 19 February 2015

The total amount collected by councils in England for business rates is expected to soar by an in...

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