‘Unfair’ council tax may need to be replaced, MPs warn
Emek was warned that British should take over the Council tax system to a large extent, or even take its place to secure future financing for local authorities.
Houses, Communities and Local Government (HCLG) Committee said that the councils did not have enough financing to meet their expenditure pressure.
In a new report, the inter -party group is asked to pay from the levels of tax households and finds a “broken connection ında between the quality of the local services they receive in return.
It points to compulsory high -cost services such as educating children with adult social care and special education needs and obstacles.
Florence Eshalomi, the President of the HCLG Committee, said: “While residents make more and more payment in taxes, but when they see less in daily services such as libraries and pits, they are at risk of confidence in local democracy and slimming.
“Councils are stuck in a throat by the central government, and local authorities lack flexibility or control to design creative, long -term, preventive solutions that can offer better money.”
The Committee’s report proposes that the government starts the process of “overhaul or changing the Council tax”, and in the meantime, local authorities give more control on the tax on the authorities.
It also requires the council to be authorized to re -appreciate properties in their fields and to identify and determine the property band rates.
Campaigns have long been called for the re -valuation of property throughout the country, and the Council tax bands in the UK were still based on property values in 1991.
The Institute of Financial Research (IFS) has recently found that the most expensive properties in recent times have increased in more than eight floors as prices have increased, but now they have drawn at least the least valuable tax.
In April, nine of the ten councils forced the maximum possible Council tax increase by 4.99 percent, and six of whom were permission to increase local rates further. These were Windsor and Maidenhead, Newham, Bradford, Birmingham, Somperset and Trafford.
A HCLG spokesman said: “The government is taking a decisive action to correct the broken council financing system in order to provide vital public services that local leaders trust their communities.
“We have announced more than 5 billion £ new grant finance for more than £ 69 billion to increase the council financing this year, and we will continue to reform the financing system to make it suitable for the future.
“This will enable the councils to receive the support they need, and to protect the inhabitants from more costs by maintaining a 5% limit to the amount where the council tax can be increased without a referendum.”
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner, led by the department, announced in June for a new approach to a new approach to local government financing to enable him to “go to the place where it is most needed”.
A proposal will be seen in the areas where demand is the largest, which can be used more, that is, these areas can provide lower council tax increases.
However, this will probably mean that less financing will be achieved for areas where local services are not stretched, and residents are not required to pay such steep bill increases in recent years.
