FINANCE
LGA: Council tax rises will not stop deep cuts
By Mark Conrad | 20 February 2017
Council tax rises designed to tackle the social care funding crisis will not prevent deep cuts to...
WHITEHALL
Shapps wades into revaluation row
By Jamie Hailstone | 20 February 2017
A former local government minister has waded into the ongoing row over business rates revaluation.
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
'No council tax to fix social care gap'
By Jamie Hailstone | 14 February 2017
The Welsh Government has ruled out using council tax to help plug the devolved nation’s social ca...
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 ...
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
Surrey CC scraps plans for 15% council tax referendum
By Sam Clayden | 06 February 2017
Surrey CC has scrapped plans to hold a referendum on whether to increase council tax by 15%.
FINANCE
Schemes pressure poorer families
By Dan Peters | 01 February 2017
Each new wave of council tax support schemes (CTS) has put a greater burden on low income familie...
FINANCE
Surrey is an example of why councils need fiscal freedoms
By Dr John Stanton | 30 January 2017
In the wake of Surrey CC's decision to hold a council tax referendum, Dr John Stanton argues givi...
FINANCE
Warning over future for care home providers
By Dan Peters | 25 January 2017
Councils have called for ‘urgent and genuinely new’ funding for social care amid fresh warnings t...
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