A Medway councillor has suggested a way to make local government more effective in Kent is to remove all small councils and create one Kent-wide unitary authority – along with a number of changes to how council tax is raised. On the Kent Politics Podcast, Cllr Andrew Lawrence (Con) spoke about the details of a ConservativeHome article he wrote titled “How to reform local government finance” in which he argued the council tax increase cap should be removed and a local income tax should replace the current property value-based approach. He outlined how the current system, where council tax payme…
