Dan Peters 19 August 2024

Abolish grant support for five local authorities to raise £600m, think-tank suggests

Abolish grant support for five local authorities to raise £600m, think-tank suggests image
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The Government should ‘reduce or eliminate all support' for a number of local authorities where council tax is low, a centre-right think-tank report has suggested.

Onward's chief economist Tim Leunig suggested increasing council tax in these areas and introducing an ‘interim measure of simply abolishing their grant support would clearly improve the fairness of the system'.

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