CIPFA has called for public bodies to be exempt from insurance premium tax (IPT) in order to cushion the blow of a change in the discount rate applied to personal injury payments.
Public sector finances will be hit by a dramatic upcoming change to the discount rate applied to personal injury payments, a leading insurer has warned.
In summer 2016, Public Finance and insurance brokers Arthur J. Gallagher teamed up to carry out some research into risk financing in the public sector.
As austerity has pushed down on public services, a plethora of risks and uncertainties have popped up in response. A recent Public Finance roundtable debated the issues at stake
Built upon equal sharing of profit and loss as well as other ethical principles, Islamic finance is prospering in the UK and could provide an alternative approach to managing public funds
Councils want the momentum towards devolution to be maintained after the election. But there are risks attached to handling the bigger budgets involved
