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Councils with social care duties can raise council tax every year by up to 4.99%, without triggering a referendum. Others can increase it by up to 2.99%. The County Councils Network previously ...
Council Tax is a local taxation system used in England, Scotland and Wales. It is a tax on domestic property, which was introduced in 1993 by the Local Government Finance Act 1992, replacing the short-lived Community Charge (also known as "poll tax"), which in turn replaced the domestic rates. Each property is assigned one of eight bands in ...
The Greater London Authority ( GLA ), colloquially known by the metonym City Hall, is the devolved regional governance body of Greater London, England. It consists of two political branches: an executive Mayor (currently Sadiq Khan) and the 25-member London Assembly, which serves as a means of checks and balances on the Mayor.
The council's full legal name is "The Mayor and Burgesses of the London Borough of Newham", but it styles itself Newham Council. From 1965 until 1986 the council was a lower-tier authority, with upper-tier functions provided by the Greater London Council. The split of powers and functions meant that the Greater London Council was responsible ...
The Local Government Finance Act 1992 includes obligations of the occupants or (in the case of vacant properties and houses of multiple occupation) the owners of properties in the United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland) to pay Council Tax. It repealed large sections of the Local Government Finance Act 1988, which introduced the unpopular ...
In the financial year 2019/20, local authorities received 22% of their funding from grants, 52% from council tax and 27% from retained business rates. In the financial year 2023/24, 51% of revenue expenditure is expected to come from UK Government grants, 31% from council tax and 15% from retained business rates.
Harveysburg voted unanimously, 6-0, to approve a 3% admissions tax at the village council meeting Monday. The tax would mean Harveysburg would collect 96 cents from every $32 ticket sold for the ...
The council's full legal name is "The Mayor and Burgesses of the London Borough of Bromley". From 1965 until 1986 the council was a lower-tier authority, with upper-tier functions provided by the Greater London Council. The split of powers and functions meant that the Greater London Council was responsible for "wide area" services such as fire ...