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PLANNING
Labour report calls for radical tax and planning reforms
By Martin Ford | 04 June 2019
Replacing council tax and business rates are among the radical policies proposed in a report comm...
FINANCE
Scottish councils need more power - think-tank
By Hiba Mahamadi | 28 May 2019
Scottish local government needs a ‘renewal,’ a think tank has urged, with directly elected mayors...
BUSINESS
Experts call for revenue-boosting internet tax
By Hiba Mahamadi | 21 May 2019
Green credits and an internet transaction tax could provide valuable new revenue streams for loca...
WHITEHALL
Business rates relief control call
By Dan Peters | 20 May 2019
District councils have called for full control over the business rates relief that is awarded in ...
FINANCE
Council tax system needs 'fundamental reform'
By Dan Peters | 16 May 2019
The council tax system is ‘highly regressive and unsustainable,’ and needs ‘fundamental reform,’ ...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
We need a real debate on local taxes
By Piali Das Gupta | 15 May 2019
Piali Das Gupta argues that we need a more sophisticated balance of local revenue sources for loc...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Press pause on fair funding review
By Heather Jameson | 15 May 2019
Crippled by austerity and uncertainty, councils are financially paralysed and facing failure. Hea...
COUNCIL TAX
'Smart bins' and tax cuts could help increase recycling rates - report
By William Eichler | 13 May 2019
Local authorities could use ‘smart bins’ and council tax cuts to help drive up recycling rates in...
FINANCE
Localised council tax support schemes six years on
By Thomas Pope | 16 April 2019
Stuart Adam and Thomas Pope of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IfS) estimate a quarter of the a...
COUNCIL TAX
London councils unite to reveal pockets of poverty
By Deven Ghelani | 15 April 2019
Deven Ghelani outlines how a collaboration involving 18 London boroughs has resulted in a data an...
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