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FINANCE
Shire business rates fears prompt joint intervention
By Dan Peters | 10 August 2016
Finance directors in two-tier areas have parked their rivalries to launch a surprise intervention...
WHITEHALL
Councils and pressure group clash over tax
By Tom Bridge | 09 August 2016
Campaigners have called for the ‘abolition’ of stamp duty despite pressure from councils for grea...
FINANCE
'Partial reset' plan for business rate retention is mooted
By Tom Bridge | 02 August 2016
A ‘compromise’ for how 100% business rates retention will work is close to being agreed by local ...
FINANCE
Porter: Attendance allowance is business rates deal-breaker
By Sam Clayden | 22 July 2016
Local Government Association chairman Gary Porter has warned Whitehall that forcing local authori...
FINANCE
Advisory group holds first meeting on rate retention
By Dan Peters | 20 July 2016
The group established to advise ministers on 100% business rates retention has met for the first ...
FINANCE
More questions than answers
By Cllr Nick Forbes | 20 July 2016
Business rates retention goes further than simply a rethink of local government finances and more...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Business as usual?
By Dan Peters | 13 July 2016
Dan Peters explores the key issues facing local government ahead of the devolution of business ra...
WHITEHALL
Capital rates pilot a 'big risk' to sector
By Dan Peters | 13 July 2016
London Councils is pushing ahead with plans for the capital to retain all of its income from busi...
FINANCE
Fear for councils over business rates appeals
By Dan Peters | 13 July 2016
The risk of losing business rates appeals needs to be held at a national level, a senior local go...
FINANCE
£3m shortfall forces councils to consider merging
By Jamie Hailstone | 13 July 2016
Two district councils in Somerset are facing a combined budget shortfall of more than £3m by 2020...
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