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17 May 19
Council tax increasingly resembles poll tax - hitting the poor hardest - for Londoners and must be reformed, a think-tank has said.
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11 Apr 19
The government has pledged to protect people in council tax arrears from aggressive debt collectors.
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3 Apr 19
Debate about levels of council tax is doomed to go nowhere unless we consider what we’re willing to pay for services and how, says the Local Government Information Unit’s Jonathan Carr-West.
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27 Mar 19
Local authorities in England will put up the average band D council tax by 4.7% next financial year, government stats have shown.
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14 Mar 19
Welsh households will endure the sharpest rise in council tax for 15 years, CIPFA has found.
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5 Mar 19
Residents in England face council tax increases of 4.5% in the coming year – the second highest increase in a decade, according to CIPFA analysis.
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28 Feb 19
Welsh councils should ensure they take “early intervention” to stop more households falling into debt as they look to increase council tax next year, a think-tank has said.
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26 Feb 19
Not only has the reduced system of council tax support hit low-paid workers but it has proved remarkably ineffective as a way to raise revenue, says the IFS’ Stuart Adam and Thomas Pope.
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22 Feb 19
Councillors have approved Northamptonshire County Council’s 4.99% council tax rise, the local authority has announced.
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14 Feb 19
The majority - 97% - of councils in England plan to raise council tax in 2019-20, a survey has found.
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29 Jan 19
The final local government finance settlement has handed Northamptonshire County Council a lifeline by allowing the cash-strapped authority greater council tax flexibility.
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29 Jan 19
Council tax arrears in England are soaring after millions of households have been stripped of funding from schemes to help them with their bills over the last five years.
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29 Jan 19
Cities should be given greater tax raising powers to meet growing demand for services amid shrinking budgets, says a leading academic.
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8 Nov 18
Second homeowners who declare their properties as ‘holiday lets’ may be required to pay council tax following a government consultation.
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10 Oct 18
An annual levy based on the up-to-date value of a property should replace council tax and stamp duty, a think-tank has urged.
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4 Oct 18
CIPFA and the Institute for Fiscal Studies recently hosted a round tabled debate on the questions and issues thrown up by the government’s fair funding review. Vivienne Russell reports.
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2 Oct 18
Greater fiscal devolution, commercialisation and students paying council tax were all mooted solutions to squeezed local government funding, at a Conservative Party conference fringe session...
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3 Sep 18
Abolishing business rates and taxing land values instead would benefit businesses in 90% of English local authority areas, a Liberal Democrat report has claimed.
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22 Aug 18
Inner London councils are set to lose out from the fair funding review, according to analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
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26 Jul 18
The government will cover the £153m cost of negative revenue support grant next year, it has been revealed.
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23 Jul 18
The debate about local government finance needs to be broad and radical, the Local Government Information Unit has said.
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19 Jul 18
The government has adopted proposals for council tax on empty homes to be quadrupled.
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18 Jul 18
Council leaders have urged the Lords to back a bill to double council tax premiums on empty homes in England in order to tackle a “chronic housing shortage”.
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3 Apr 18
The average council tax bill in England in 2018-19 will rise by 5.1% compared to the last financial year, the government has announced.
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20 Mar 18
Council tax is no longer fit for purpose and should be replaced with a system that is fairer both across and within generations, says Adam Corlett of the Resolution Foundation.
17 May 19Council tax increasingly resembles poll tax - hitting the poor hardest - for Londoners and must be reformed, a think-tank has said.
11 Apr 19The government has pledged to protect people in council tax arrears from aggressive debt collectors.
3 Apr 19Debate about levels of council tax is doomed to go nowhere unless we consider what we’re willing to pay for services and how, says the Local Government Information Unit’s Jonathan Carr-West.
27 Mar 19Local authorities in England will put up the average band D council tax by 4.7% next financial year, government stats have shown.
14 Mar 19Welsh households will endure the sharpest rise in council tax for 15 years, CIPFA has found.
28 Feb 19Welsh councils should ensure they take “early intervention” to stop more households falling into debt as they look to increase council tax next year, a think-tank has said.
22 Feb 19Councillors have approved Northamptonshire County Council’s 4.99% council tax rise, the local authority has announced.
29 Jan 19Cities should be given greater tax raising powers to meet growing demand for services amid shrinking budgets, says a leading academic.
8 Nov 18Second homeowners who declare their properties as ‘holiday lets’ may be required to pay council tax following a government consultation.
4 Oct 18CIPFA and the Institute for Fiscal Studies recently hosted a round tabled debate on the questions and issues thrown up by the government’s fair funding review. Vivienne Russell reports.
3 Sep 18Abolishing business rates and taxing land values instead would benefit businesses in 90% of English local authority areas, a Liberal Democrat report has claimed.
22 Aug 18Inner London councils are set to lose out from the fair funding review, according to analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
26 Jul 18The government will cover the £153m cost of negative revenue support grant next year, it has been revealed.
19 Jul 18The government has adopted proposals for council tax on empty homes to be quadrupled.
18 Jul 18Council leaders have urged the Lords to back a bill to double council tax premiums on empty homes in England in order to tackle a “chronic housing shortage”.
20 Mar 18Council tax is no longer fit for purpose and should be replaced with a system that is fairer both across and within generations, says Adam Corlett of the Resolution Foundation.
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