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Taxpayers' Alliance calls for local income tax

The Taxpayers’ Alliance has called for local government to have the power to levy a local income tax and a local sales tax.

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By Michael Burton | 13 December 2016

The Taxpayers' Alliance has called for local government to have the power to levy a local income tax and a local sales tax.

Writing in the finance newspaper CityAM, alliance chief executive John O'Connell said it was ‘time to start serious discussions about local authorities being given greater fiscal responsibilities.'

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