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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Kiran Stacey Policy editor

Labour MPs call on Rachel Reeves to scrap council tax

Rachel Reeves sitting at a table
Researchers at the Institute for Fiscal Studies have also urged Rachel Reeves to put property tax reform at top of list of priorities. Photograph: Isabel Infantes/Reuters

More than a dozen Labour MPs have written to Rachel Reeves calling on her to scrap council tax, as the chancellor faces mounting pressure to overhaul Great Britain’s property taxes in next month’s budget.

Thirteen MPs, mainly from seats in northern England, wrote to Reeves last month asking her to abolish the tax and replace it with another system that better accounts for the steep rise in house prices in London and the south-east over the last 35 years.

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