Local authorities will be allowed to raise council tax by up to 2% in 2015/16, local government minister Kris Hopkins announced today.
Communities secretary Eric Pickles had reportedly been asking for the threshold to be lowered to 1% next year but he appears to have been defeated at the last moment by his Conservative and Lib Dem ministerial colleagues.
The cut in spending power will be 1.8%.
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