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Council tax

September 2023

  • Michael Gove

    Michael Gove’s local council warns of bankruptcy risk after failed Tory investments

    New Lib Dem leadership in Surrey Heath attacks previous Conservative regime for racking up debts of £165m

August 2023

  • A bailiff at the door of an anxious-looking young couple wearing masks

    Bailiffs making record profits collecting debt for councils in cost of living crisis

    Charities call for an end to the outsourcing of public debt as firms’ turnover rises 50% in a year

May 2023

  • A BP oil platform in the North Sea, about 100 miles east of Aberdeen in Scotland

    Labour calls for energy firms to pay more tax on £60m-a-day profits

    Party wants greater taxation on North Sea profits to fund freeze on council tax for cash-strapped UK households

April 2023

  • A back garden with artificial grass

    Britons who keep gardens green should get council tax cut, study suggests

    Move suggested to tackle rise in plastic grass and paving, which exacerbate wildlife loss, flooding and summer heat
  • Builders constructing new houses out of brick on a building site

    PPT, LVT, IHT – which is fairer than council tax?

    Letters: Carol Wilcox, Jeremy Scroxton and Linda Buckingham respond to proposals to replace local government funding arrangements
  • Larry Elliott

    Economics viewpoint
    A property tax based on annually uprated values would be a gamechanger

    Larry Elliott
    Replacing the council tax would be popular and the vast majority of UK households would gain

March 2023

  • Rishi Sunak examines a pothole on a visit to Darlington.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Rishi Sunak sidesteps question about whether having private swimming pool means he’s out of touch – as it happened

  • With water bills, now may be the time to find out if you could save money by getting a meter.

    ‘UK national price hike day’: what to expect and how to lessen blow

  • A model poses as someone working how to play a series of household bills.

    ‘We live from month to month’: people in UK brace for April’s bill rises

  • People protest over rising energy bills in February last year.

    Rising bills and tax hikes to make UK families hundreds of pounds worse off

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Postponing state pension age decision ‘not exactly a sign of strength’, Jacob Rees-Mogg tells Tories – as it happened

  • Labour would freeze council tax for one year, says Keir Starmer

  • People in England: how will you be affected by council tax rises?

  • Majority of English councils plan more cuts at same time as maximum tax rises

February 2023

  • Three councils have been given special dispensation to increase bills beyond 4.99%. Croydon’s bill will go up by 15%, while Thurrock and Slough will each raise bills by 10%.

    Most top-tier English councils to raise council tax by maximum permitted

  • Will Hutton

    Exorbitant house prices don’t just hurt the young. They are a blight on all our lives

    Will Hutton

November 2022

  • DIARY21 FINAL

    The heat or eat diaries
    I work 50 hours a week and I’m still in arrears on my council tax. What more can I do?

    Sharron Spice
  • South Snowdon Wharf in Porthmadog

    ‘People are living in vans’: Porthmadog considers vexed issue of second homes

  • Cottages in Sandsend, near Whitby, North Yorkshire.

    Council tax premium won’t tackle the blight of holiday lets

  • A library in Maidstone

    Bigger council tax rises will not prevent more cuts to services, councils say

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