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The impact of localised council tax support schemes

Robert Joyce
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This presentation was delivered to the Social Security Advisory Committee in London on 24th July 2019

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The impacts of localised council tax support schemes
Five years on from the localisation and funding cut for Council Tax Support, this report looks at how local authorities’ Council Tax Support schemes have evolved since they were first introduced, and at the changing effects of these scheme choices on claimants and on local authorities.
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Cuts to support mean 1.3 million more low-income households get a council tax bill, but a quarter of the extra tax due is not paid
In 2013, support for low-income households to pay their council tax was localised across England and funding for it was cut, while it was mandated that pensioners be protected. Hence for the first time since the poll tax, some of the lowest-income households have been required to pay local tax.