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In the first case of its kind, the Supreme Court has ruled  that a local authority’s consultation on its Council Tax Support scheme was unfair and therefore unlawful. At…

In recent days, the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has released new statistics on council tax collection in England. Covering the period April 2013 to March…

In our opening blog yesterday, we used Cameron’s row with the Catholic hierarchy to make the point that alongside the better known cash benefits, the social security safety net…

As the government boasts that it has held down council tax increases for a fourth year in a row, it’s ignoring the council tax hikes faced by millions of low income households.…

Jonathan Portes’ Guardian article in favour of a housing services tax looks good on paper. But, would such a tax really require the abolition of council tax and its system of bands…

Back in 2004, as the Labour government moved towards deciding how to bring council tax up-to-date (having made a commitment to do so back in 2001), NPI (in its guise as the Centre…

In April 2013, Council Tax Benefit (CTB) will be replaced with Council Tax Support (CTS). This marks one of the most significant reforms of the welfare system for sixty years.…

While Universal Credit is dominating the welfare debate, the replacement for council tax benefit – the most widely claimed means tested benefit – goes largely unnoticed. A key…

NPI's new analysis of the Government’s consultation document on council tax benefit shows that English local authorities will either have to absorb the CTB cut themselves or tax…

To cut Council Tax Benefit by 10% risks damaging a very effective political safety valve.  Are Coalition politicians sure this is what they want in 2013? With some 5.8 million…