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Government u-turns on ‘staircase tax’

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Housing minister Dominic Raab has confirmed a government u-turn on a budget promise to compensate councils for the new “staircase tax” resulting from a

‘Half-baked’ plans to overhaul Scottish local government will lead to significant financial costs that have not been thought through and risk repeating the flawed process of local government reorganisation (LGR) in England, ministers have been warned.

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