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COUNCIL TAX
'Smart bins' and tax cuts could help increase recycling rates - report
By William Eichler | 13 May 2019
Local authorities could use ‘smart bins’ and council tax cuts to help drive up recycling rates in...
FINANCE
Localised council tax support schemes six years on
By Thomas Pope | 16 April 2019
Stuart Adam and Thomas Pope of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IfS) estimate a quarter of the a...
COUNCIL TAX
London councils unite to reveal pockets of poverty
By Deven Ghelani | 15 April 2019
Deven Ghelani outlines how a collaboration involving 18 London boroughs has resulted in a data an...
COUNCIL TAX
Whitehall pledges to end aggressive council tax debt collection
By Laura Sharman | 11 April 2019
The way local authorities recover unpaid council tax is to be reviewed by the Government in a bid...
FINANCE
Plea to fund social care through insurance
By Martin Ford | 09 April 2019
A minister has been asked to consider mandatory insurance to ease social care funding pressures i...
COUNCIL TAX
Wales launches 'resident-focused' council tax reforms
By Hiba Mahamadi | 01 April 2019
Council tax debtors in Wales will no longer be at risk of imprisonment as part of a new initiativ...
WHITEHALL
Councils defend council tax hikes
By Heather Jameson | 27 March 2019
Councils have had ‘little choice’ but to raise council tax to protect local services, the Local G...
FINANCE
A taxing problem
By Heather Jameson | 21 March 2019
Heather Jameson looks at the latest report from the IFS’s Local Government Finance Commission, wh...
SOCIAL CARE
Waiting for Godot and the Social Care Green Paper
By Heather Jameson | 19 March 2019
Public finances are outperforming expectations, but the post-spring statement briefing from the I...
FINANCE
Steepest council tax rise in 15 years
By Dan Peters | 14 March 2019
The steepest climb in council tax in 15 years in Wales will take place in 2019/20, the Chartered ...
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