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Councils anticipate cutting services to ‘legal minimum’

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Two-thirds of councils believe they will only be able to deliver minimum services required by law within five years. The results of a survey

Plans to hand mayors a portion of income tax revenues risk funding for richer areas pulling ahead by billions of pounds a year unless carefully designed safeguards are built in, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has warned.

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