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BUDGET 2025
Budget: Council tax, levies and local accountability
By Iain Murray | 01 December 2025
The Budget announcements on the ‘mansion tax’, the visitor levy and SEND suggested a system stuck...
BUDGET 2025
Rachel Reeves: The Queen of fiscal drag
By Mike Emmerich | 28 November 2025
The chancellor may have done respectably on putting the public finances on a more secure long-ter...
SIGOMA
The Recovery Grant: a vital tool to rebuild local communities
By Cllr Sir Stephen Houghton | 28 November 2025
Overall, the Government’s local government finance reforms appear to be a positive step forward o...
BUDGET 2025
Budget: Council tax surcharge to 'support funding for local government services'
By Dan Peters | 26 November 2025
Revenue from the high value council tax surcharge will be used to ‘support funding for local gove...
BUDGET 2025
Budget: Government to fund SEND
By Heather Jameson | 26 November 2025
Government will fully fund Special Educational Needs and Disabilities from 2028-29, cutting one o...
KEY CITIES
Councils are at breaking point and social care should be made a priority
By Cllr Mike Stonard | 24 November 2025
Ahead of the Autumn Budget, Key Cities portfolio holder for health and social care Cllr Mike Ston...
AUTUMN BUDGET
Boulevard of broken Budget dreams
By Jonathan Werran | 20 November 2025
Has the chancellor reached the end of the road? Jonathan Werran argues that financial redistribut...
COUNCIL TAX
A Budget eye on council tax
By Paul Marinko | 19 November 2025
Chancellor Rachel Reeves is considering council tax reform in her upcoming Budget – a move that c...
AUTUMN BUDGET
Councils must speak out on increasing tax-raising powers
By Rob Whiteman CBE | 19 November 2025
As Rob Whiteman spells out local government’s three Budget priorities, he makes it clear: council...
FINANCE
EXCLUSIVE: Charity warning over fair funding proposals
By Dan Peters | 19 November 2025
Proposals around council tax in the fair funding review will ‘further penalise’ already-strugglin...
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