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WHITEHALL
Central-local relations at 'all-time low' - study
By Ann McGauran | 15 May 2019
The relationship between Whitehall and councils has broken down, with local leaders feeling ‘disr...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
We need a real debate on local taxes
By Piali Das Gupta | 15 May 2019
Piali Das Gupta argues that we need a more sophisticated balance of local revenue sources for loc...
FINANCE
Redressing the balance
By Ann McGauran | 15 May 2019
Localis’s report Hitting reset – a case for local leadership puts the argument for a complete tra...
FINANCE
Cut business rates, claims Treasury's Truss
By Heather Jameson | 09 May 2019
Business rates should be cut to support the private sector, chief secretary to the Treasury, Liz ...
WHITEHALL
The dead hand of centralism
By Steve Leach | 24 April 2019
Central Government must give up its ‘iron grip’ on local government finances and free councils up...
FINANCE
Doubts over new taxes to fund Commonwealth Games
By Martin Ford | 15 April 2019
New forms of tax are unlikely to fill a £40m hole in funding for the Commonwealth Games budget, c...
INFRASTRUCTURE
Speak up! Making the case for devolved infrastructure funding
By Sir John Armitt | 27 March 2019
This week's launch of the National Infrastructure Commission's Next Steps for Cities programme ro...
WHITEHALL
Local income tax best bet for fiscal devo - IFS
By Heather Jameson | 21 March 2019
Local income tax would be the best option for fiscal devolution if the Government wanted to hand ...
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...
FINANCE
The problem solvers
By Nickie Aiken | 21 March 2019
Cllr Nickie Aitken says it is time for the sector to stop pleading poverty and start working on s...
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