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    This is a silly game

    County & District councils have to work under a regime of restricted ability to increase their precept so have to cut services to live within their income, they push some of these services onto Parish councils, who are not restricted to a 2% increase in precept and can therefore fund them (if they choose to) of course this then means a significant rise in percentage terms in the parish precept. It really is time the rules of the game were redrawn, firstly to reduce the number of tiers of government, secondly to ensure that a fair percentage of local tax take remained in local hands (income/corporation tax, VAT, business rates etc.) this would the encourage local government to work with local people to make their patch more successful as they would then have more money to spend on local services etc.

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