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FINANCE
Austerity fears grow amid business rates uncertainty
By Jonathan Werran | 12 July 2017
Continued ‘major uncertainty’ over the Government’s business rates retention plans is forcing fin...
FINANCE
Gwynne: Stop talking down councils and councillors
By Hiba Mahamadi | 06 July 2017
Local authorities need to be given back decision-making powers, the shadow communities secretary ...
FINANCE
Councils in business rates information 'black hole'
By Dan Peters | 05 July 2017
Councils that use Civica software may not be able to provide business rates relief promised by th...
FINANCE
Queen's Speech leaves fiscal plans in question
By Mark Conrad | 28 June 2017
Whitehall officials are assessing how councils could control a greater share of local income with...
WHITEHALL
Local government has been left in limbo
By Heather Jameson | 28 June 2017
A lack of finance reform legislation may give local government the chance to craft a better solut...
FINANCE
Business rate as an income base requires more thought
By Michael Burton | 28 June 2017
local government needs to be realistic about the feasibility of relying on business rate for its ...
FINANCE
Dawn Baxendale: Chiefs have lost their public service raison d'être
By Sam Clayden | 28 June 2017
Dawn Baxendale speaks to Sam Clayden about how Southampton City Council – and local government as...
FINANCE
Local Government Finance Bill: A big let-down for the sector
By Sam Clayden | 28 June 2017
With a parliamentary agenda lacking much in terms of legislation for the next two years aside fro...
FINANCE
Where next for local government financial reform?
By David Phillips | 26 June 2017
With the falling of the Local Government Finance Bill, the IFS's David Phillips assesses where th...
WHITEHALL
Austerity must be eased
By Heather Jameson | 21 June 2017
Heather Jameson says that without the return of business rates or a solution to the social care c...
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