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WHITEHALL
Top-down plan shot down
By Sam Clayden | 22 March 2017
Town halls and experts have kicked back at sweeping proposals urging ministers to impose new devo...
FINANCE
We need to talk about the state of the state
By Heather Jameson | 14 March 2017
We are trying to pay for public services with a tax system based on property and full-time employ...
FINANCE
The Budget reaffirms the need for fiscal freedom
By Bob Neill | 14 March 2017
Bob Neill examines the details of the chancellor’s Budget and looks at why local government needs...
WHITEHALL
Devolution damaged by 'endless tinkering'
By Mark Conrad | 14 March 2017
Regional government has been subject to ‘endless tinkering’ which has damaged effective devolutio...
FINANCE
The revaluation row is a harbinger of controversies to come
By Michael Burton | 08 March 2017
Michael Burton warns revaluation raises wider questions as to whether the current incentive to in...
FINANCE
Councils may lose out on growth after 100% rates retention
By Mark Conrad | 08 March 2017
Councils on the cusp of redistribution thresholds after 100% business rates retention could be di...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
MPs call for rates and LEP reviews
By Dan Peters | 03 March 2017
MPs have called for separate government reviews of local enterprise partnerships (LEP) and the bu...
FINANCE
Other taxes must now be localised along with business rates
By Michael Burton | 21 February 2017
The Government must logically now look at localising a much wider range of tax along with busines...
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
'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...
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