Council Income Tax

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Councils should be given the power to set the basic rate of income tax, one of Gordon Brown's most influential former advisers says.

Central government could also replace council tax with a new "national property tax", he adds.

Chris Wales, Mr Brown's principal tax adviser in opposition and at the Treasury, sets out his proposals in an online article for The Daily Telegraph.

Mr Wales, who now works in the private sector, said: "Make the local authorities bigger and treat them more like Scotland. Allocate the basic rate of tax to the new authorities and give them the power to vary it… Take council tax away from the local authorities and make it a national property tax, easier to administer, easier to administer more fairly."

What do you reckon? Councils would really have to up their game.

Nice picture of Hornsey Town hall which has been empty for decades!!!