Bob Neill examines the details of the chancellor’s Budget and looks at why local government needs...
We are trying to pay for public services with a tax system based on property and full-time employ...
Regional government has been subject to ‘endless tinkering’ which has damaged effective devolutio...
Michael Burton warns revaluation raises wider questions as to whether the current incentive to in...
Councils on the cusp of redistribution thresholds after 100% business rates retention could be di...
MPs have called for separate government reviews of local enterprise partnerships (LEP) and the bu...
The Government must logically now look at localising a much wider range of tax along with busines...
Results of the latest LGiU/The MJ annual finance survey lead to stark warnings on the fiscal futu...
The challenge of moving to 100% business rates retention will be how to incentive ‘all kinds of g...
In the wake of Surrey CC's decision to hold a council tax referendum, Dr John Stanton argues givi...
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