Whitehall officials are not expecting returning local government secretary Michael Gove to make changes to next year’s referendum limit for council tax rises, The MJ understands.
The Local Government Association (LGA) accepts that increasing council tax beyond current limits will be hard in the current economic climate but has argued democratically-elected councillors should be allowed to make such decisions.
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