Council tax bills are set to rise at their fastest rate for two decades in the wake of Rachel Reeves’ spending review, according to the head of the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
Paul Johnson said that local government in England did “perhaps a little bit better than it might have expected” out of the Chancellor’s statement on Wednesday, but the “sting in the tail” is the assumption that “council tax bills will rise by 5% a year” as part of the funding.
