Is Scotland about to scrap council tax?
The Greens and the SNP are looking at replacing the tax with a more progressive alternative and will vote on it tomorrow.
Is council tax the new poll tax? Here’s why it’s so regressive and what we replace it with
Property wealth has risen by 300% over the past 40 years while annual property taxes have fallen by 0.3%.
These are the 5 UK industries that will be hardest hit by Brexit, jeopardising thousands of jobs
Up to 65,000 small companies are completely unprepared for trade outside the single market, this new report warns.
Revealed: not a single person has been prosecuted under the Tories’ offshore tax evasion laws
While more and more people who can’t afford to pay council tax are being prosecuted and jailed.
Over half of those in poverty are now from working households – work isn’t paying in Tory Britain
Stagnating wages and Tory austerity have forced millions of working families into poverty.
May blames “nimby councils” for housing crisis, ignoring 30 years of Tory attacks on social housing
The PM thinks she can get away with blaming local authorities for the lack of house building in the UK, totally ignoring the facts.
The Tories’ childcare policies are in total disarray
In some parts of the UK, childcare now costs nearly £10,000 a year – with lower-income families among the hardest hit.
UK hit by worst cost of living crisis in 50 years, new data shows – and the Tories have ignored it
The effects of Tory austerity may have been even worse than previously thought.
A court just ruled these 400,000 precarious workers may be entitled to employment rights
Almost half a million ‘bogusly self-employed’ people may be affected by a ruling by an employment appeal tribunal today.
This new Tory welfare cut could be about to make thousands of vulnerable people homeless
‘Support for mortgage interest’ for 110,000 people is being cut and less than 10% have applied for the loan offered by Serco to replace it.