Well..Council Tax seemingly provides about a quarter of local funding. Local councils set the total Council Tax they need to raise, based on their overall budget for the year. Each household pays an amount depending on the value of their home. The government has powers to ensure that increases in local authority budgets and Council Tax are not excessive....so why not increase council tax and undo the freeze which has deprived Scottish LA's of 500 millions
Local government spending is about a quarter of all public spending in the UK. Local councils are funded by a combination of grants from central government, Council Tax and business rates. They also receive income from investments, council rents, sales and charges for aervices.
Central government (or the devolved government in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) provides specific and general grants to enable local authorities to deliver all the necessary services. To divide up the funding, the government uses a system based on the number and value of properties in each area and how much it costs to provide services there.
So the srcipt will go westmister are depriving scottish local authorities of the budgets they need to deliver services..............begs the question, could an independant scotland or an FFA Scotland provide local authorities with adequate funding given falling oil tax revenues....time the SNP dropped the freeze and stopedp buying votes !! Said it before but who gains from a council tax freeze...the well off...by keeping the freeze and depriving LA's of income.... the SNP are an austerity party. Worringly according to HC and todays P and J education services will take a hammering...at a time when fallling literacy rates in school kids is at an alarming level ,factor in the SNP "depriving" the NHS of funds, crisis was being bandied about last night on radio scotland and sturgeon et all have caused a lot of gried and have a lot to fix....stuff they canot dodge but 100 pounds says that the old "its no our fault...its westminster" will be trotted out...theyve got a default setting on their PC's when they type in funding up comes the time honoured statement....funding..not our fault, cuts are soley due to westiminster, give us the levers of power and we will fix it all blah blah blah........,
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