Council tax should be scrapped and replaced with a charge calculated using more up-to-date home values, a Resolution Foundation report out today has said.
Just over 95% of councils across England will raise council tax next year and bills are set for the biggest increases in 14 year, according to CIPFA’s annual survey released today.
Almost all councils in England are planning to raise council tax and increase charging in 2018-19, according to the Local Government Information Unit’s annual finance survey.
Westminster Council has announced plans for a voluntary ‘mansion tax’ on buildings worth more than £10m in a bid to freeze council tax for other residents.
Nine out of 10 local authorities in England will increase their council tax bills from April, a survey has found, reinforcing findings from CIPFA released earlier in March.
Nearly all local authorities in England with responsibility for social care are set to raise council tax by the maximum 4.99% allowed without a referendum, but the Local Government Association today...
The government has been urged to set out a plan for more independent local government following the Brexit vote, with clear powers and a vision for the role of councils in driving prosperity.
County and metropolitan councils have been the biggest losers from the switch away from grants to 50% local business rates retention, according to Institute for Fiscal Studies research for the Local...
County and district councils have called on the government to commit to providing additional funding for local services where demand outstrips business rate growth following the forthcoming...
The amount of revenue raised though property taxes in 2014-15 was £66.8bn, an increase of nearly 3% compared to the previous year, an analysis by the Taxpayer’s Alliance has found.
Charities have called on local authorities to end the use of bailiffs against vulnerable residents after finding that council tax arrears have hit record levels.
The cost of collecting minimum council tax payments from low-income families is “disproportionate” to the amount being chased, local authorities have told a government-commissioned review into...
Nearly 80% of councils in England require low-income households to pay some of their council tax bill, four years after the support system was localised to town halls, a report has found today.
Council tax in England is set to rise by an average of 3.1% next year, according to an analysis by CIPFA, but residents in London will only see a 0.6% average increase.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced plans to make the council tax in Scotland more progressive and to end the nine-year rate freeze if the Scottish National Party returns to government after...
Full local retention of business rates will not provide sufficient funds to allow councils to maintain early intervention services at current levels, a poll of councillors has found.
