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LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
EXCLUSIVE: Stand-off over counter-fraud strategy
By Dan Peters | 24 March 2015
A new counter-fraud strategy for councils has been delayed with the Department for Communities an...
BUSINESS
Councils' own firms in need of tax holiday
By Dan Peters | 24 March 2015
New council-owned trading companies should be given a three-year corporation tax holiday funded b...
FINANCE
That's not the way to do it
By Rob Whiteman | 23 March 2015
Last week’s Budget contained too much pre-election Punch and Judy knockabout and too little long-...
FINANCE
Welsh council tax to rise by 4%
By Dan Peters | 13 March 2015
Local authorities in Wales will have £100m more funding in 2015/16 than their counterparts in Eng...
WHITEHALL
LGA action on council financial 'watch list'
By Dan Peters | 10 March 2015
A watch list of councils financially at risk could be drawn up after watchdogs warned the Governm...
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...
FINANCE
COSLA hits back at criticism over council borrowing levels
By Dan Peters | 10 March 2015
The main body representing Scottish councils has defended local authorities’ record levels of deb...
FINANCE
London and the North bore brunt of budget cuts, IFS study shows
By Jonathan Werran | 05 March 2015
London boroughs and councils in the North East and North West experienced the largest per-head sp...
FINANCE
Pickles welcomes Cipfa's council tax survey
By Jonathan Werran | 05 March 2015
Average council tax bills across England are set to increase by a mere 1% in 2015, public finance...
FINANCE
Sparks backs report on two-speed devolution
By Heather Jameson | 17 February 2015
There needs to be a ‘root and branch review of the form and function of local government’, chair ...
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