Lyons proposes funding changes for all

Details of the Lyons Inquiry report, produced by Sir Michael Lyons and published this morning, suggest several options the government could consider for the management of local government funding, and which consider whether council tax is still an appropriate method of getting monies from local households or whether a local income tax would be more appropriate. According to the report, “council tax is not broken” but the key consider should be whether it is fair to effectively charge everyone the similar rates regardless of savings and income. So Lyons is proposing the government could ke...