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FINANCE
Getting to the business end
By Dan Peters | 31 August 2016
Time is fast approaching on the issue of business rates retention, and local government has a lot...
BUSINESS
Rates research has some surprises
By Simon Edwards | 26 August 2016
CCN director Simon Edwards on what can be learnt from research ahead of the single biggest local ...
WHITEHALL
Let's look at the art of the possible
By Heather Jameson | 17 August 2016
What started off as a sign local government could stand on its own two feet is starting to look l...
FINANCE
Fairness more important than simplicity
By Margaret Lee | 17 August 2016
It is clear the new system of local government finance will be far more complex than the current ...
FINANCE
Post-Brexit uncertainty plunges finance settlement into chaos
By Dan Peters | 17 August 2016
Council finance directors have expressed concerns about taking up the Government’s offer of a fou...
FINANCE
Billing authority role must remain
By Ian Miller | 17 August 2016
The Department for Communities and Local Government consultation paper, Self-sufficient local gov...
WHITEHALL
Counting the pennies to 2020
By Cllr Ian Parry | 17 August 2016
Every local authority is now considering the complex implications of planning for the abolition o...
WHITEHALL
Business rate return could be 'unfair' for counties
By Heather Jameson | 16 August 2016
The ‘well-intentioned’ policy of business rate retention could end up being unfair in two-tier ar...
WHITEHALL
Rate retention to be put under scrutiny
By Dan Peters | 10 August 2016
Business rates retention will come under further scrutiny with a report to be produced by the Nat...
WHITEHALL
Where next for devolution?
By Simon Goacher | 10 August 2016
Will government demands for elected mayors in devolution deals survive in the post-Brexit shake-u...
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