Wednesday, 26 February 2014

Council to freeze council tax

At Full Council on February 24, Bromley Council agreed its budget for 2014-15.

This followed the announcement made by the Chancellor before Christmas that the grant given to local authorities to freeze the council tax would no longer be a one-off payment but part of the year-on-year on-going funding to Councils. Bromley Council lobbied local MPs and government Ministers regarding this issue arguing accepting one-off payments was not financially sustainable in terms of future budgets.  Together with the GLA precept, which has been reduced, this means band D council tax payers in Bromley will pay £4 per annum less this year.  

Full details of the announcement can be seen at the following link:-

Details of other developments by Bromley Council can be seen on the Spring Update Newsletter

This can be downloaded as a pdf file from bromley.gov.uk/downloads/file/1883/update_spring_2014

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