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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
New DCN push on drainage
By Dan Peters | 05 August 2016
District councils are to launch a renewed push for the Government to stop internal drainage board...
WHITEHALL
ADASS survey: Nine in ten fear care duty failure
By Sam Clayden | 12 July 2016
Less than one in ten social care directors believed they would be able to fulfil their statutory ...
FINANCE
Council fraud defences save £300m
By William Eichler | 12 July 2016
Local authority fraud defences saved nearly £300m in 2015/16, the Chartered Institute of Public F...
FINANCE
Welsh councils 'facing £86m black hole'
By Jamie Hailstone | 27 June 2016
Welsh Conservatives have warned claim local authorities are facing £86m black hole in unpaid coun...
FINANCE
'Only full fiscal devolution can deliver economic growth'
By Heather Jameson | 25 May 2016
Cities need full fiscal devolution to deliver economic growth, a report from Core Cities and cons...
FINANCE
Councils urged to stop using bailiffs
By Dan Peters | 04 May 2016
Charities have urged councils to stop using bailiffs to chase council tax debts, warning enforcem...
BUSINESS
Changing face of tax revenues
By Michael Burton | 04 May 2016
Michael Burton analyses the figures behind tax revenues and hears how reforms to council levies a...
WHITEHALL
Call for taskforce to tackle crisis-hit Scots authorities
By Dan Peters | 04 May 2016
A taskforce could be launched to grapple with the financial situation facing Scotland’s in-crisis...
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