Councils and other government bodies are “over-zealous” and “uncompromising” in the way they pursue financially vulnerable people over unpaid debt, MPs have said.
The third phase of business rate retention pilots will go ahead with just a 75% retention and the ‘no detriment’ clause scrapped, the government has announced.
Politicians need to grapple with questions of taxation and user charging if public services are to be funded sustainably, former home secretary Charles Clarke told the CIPFA conference yesterday.
Scottish councils should be able to collect a discretionary local tourist tax if Scotland is to become more fiscally autonomous, an umbrella group has said.
Three-quarters of public service leaders feel the government has not engaged sufficiently with their organisation over Brexit, a CIPFA survey has revealed.
A New York-style property levy could give local authorities a multi-billion pound windfall to put toward housebuilding, the Association for Consultancy and Engineering has said.
Some current tax systems across the world – including the UK’s - are “irresponsible” and are doing nothing to improve gender equality, a parliamentary panel has warned.
The Scottish Fiscal Commission is due to publish economic and fiscal forecasts today. With so much uncertainty, making those predictions will be a difficult task. Alan Bermingham explains why.
Further divergence between Scotland and the rest of the UK on taxation is inevitable because of their differing political priorities, Scottish finance secretary Derek Mackay has told PF.
With a public distrust of taxation and how it is used, ring-fencing tax for specific purposes could simplify it and solve the problem of some people being reluctant to pay it, says Common Vision’s...
The Scottish Government has promised to probe arrangements for the new Scottish income tax system after a potential problem with address data was flagged.
Households in the UK would have to pay up to £2,000 a year extra to keep the NHS afloat as it copes with increased demand, a major report out today has warned.
