Fiscal devolution 'must go further'

By Dan Peters | 15 December 2015

The devolution of fiscal powers must go further in order to create a sustainable system of local government funding for the future, a new report by the think tank Centre for Cities has argued. 

Centre for Cities said the devolution of  £10bn stamp duty tax together with the responsibility for funding local housing benefit should be the next step in the Government’s ‘devolution revolution’.

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