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MyCouncil analysis: is a 100% or 200% council tax increase needed at Westminster?  

Westminster City Council has said it is effectively being forced by government to raise council tax significantly “to make up for lost funding” as it warned of “stark” choices over services.

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The authority has launched a “huge” engagement plan asking residents what council services ”they care most about, and would they be prepared to pay more in council tax to offer some protection against service cuts”.  Some media

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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