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  Howard - far from a con, they have to decide their own priorities and what to spend their available resources on.
  
  I would, however, like to see all council services funded locally and there to be no reliance at all on central government. Then we really will have true local accountability and localism.
  
  A local sales tax, replacing all or most of VAT, with perhaps a proportion of VAT being set locally, depending how the numbers now work out given the recent VAT rise. There ised to be a close correlation between what was raised by VAT and what was paid to Councils.
  
  Dan Hannen did a paper on this some years ago - he envisaged a County level local VAT rate, not at District level. Districts might keep a higher proportion of the Council Tax instead plus their locally raised business rates.

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