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FINANCE
Who can solve the council tax conundrum?
By Jon Rowney | 13 March 2024
In the latest of The MJ’s series outlining a new vision for local government, drawing from the Ly...
COUNCIL TAX
Limited exemptions for empty homes powers
By Mark Conrad | 11 March 2024
Councils will face only a limited number of exemptions from new powers allowing them to levy high...
FINANCE
Daring to be bold
By Piali Das Gupta | 06 March 2024
The MJ’s series on building a new vision for local government, drawing from the 2007 Lyons Review...
FINANCE
Council funding crisis 'existential'
By Martin Ford | 01 March 2024
Local government’s funding crisis threatens to derail ambitions to level up the north of England,...
FINANCE
Scottish Budget 'not good' for communities
By Dan Peters | 28 February 2024
Next year’s Scottish Budget is ‘not good’ for communities, council leaders have said.
WHITEHALL
What the Budget will mean for councils
By David Phillips | 27 February 2024
David Phillips says a focus on tax cuts in the upcoming Budget does not mean councils will go com...
SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP OF MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES
Cuts put hard squeeze on most deprived councils
By Cllr Sir Stephen Houghton | 27 February 2024
New analysis reveals upper tier local authorities in the most deprived decile have seen a real-te...
SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP OF MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES
14 years on: The 'winners' and 'losers'
By Maks Wieczorski | 27 February 2024
New data shows how £13.9bn of cumulative cuts in local authority funding in the 14 years since 20...
COUNCIL TAX
Budget: Expect plenty of smoke and mirrors politics
By Zoe Billingham | 27 February 2024
The sector should expect more tax cutting smoke and mirror solutions at this year’s Budget, says ...
WHITEHALL
Fresh wave of devolution could reduce regional inequalities, says report
By Martin Ford | 27 February 2024
An overhaul of the local government system and a fresh wave of devolution have been put forward a...
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