What was in the Budget for local government?
From potholes to swimming pools and, if you searched hard, business rates to local government funding, there was much in the Budget for council finance teams to ponder on. Richard[…]
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From potholes to swimming pools and, if you searched hard, business rates to local government funding, there was much in the Budget for council finance teams to ponder on. Richard[…]
Local authorities in England have forecast that they will receive business rates income of £24.9bn in 2023/24, according to new data released by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and[…]
David Magor and Richard Harbord outline the confusion in town and county halls following the chancellor’s £14bn cut to business rates announced in the Autumn Statement. Industry bodies have welcomed[…]
David Phillips from the Institute for Fiscal Studies has crunched the numbers post-Autumn Statement and come to a surprising conclusion – the next few years will be more manageable than[…]
The chancellor’s announcement was an election-focused plan with elements of creative accounting, argues Richard Harbord. Section 151 officers will need to see more detail and timescales as a matter of[…]
Richard Harbord examines the impact of the government’s legislative proposals on councils, and concludes that local authorities expect and need more from central government. However you view the parliamentary programme[…]
The government has confirmed that it intends to introduce a bill to “create a fairer, more accurate business rates system” in England. This would involve: shortening the revaluation cycle from[…]
Chris Buss says that any review of local government finance must address social care, business rates and council tax, but the danger is that these are just too difficult to[…]