Polly Toynbee writes in the Guardian on the potential problems with localising council tax next year and describes the changes as ‘Inefficient, bureaucratic, unjust and unworkable ‘.www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/23/poll-tax-back-cameron-localism
The institute for Fiscal Studies has said ‘Any scheme which sees households with very low incomes liable for small amounts of council tax is likely to be extremely difficult to administer. That would seem to imply protecting most of those who are currently passported on to full CTB. But if that is done then either it will be very hard to find 10% savings or cuts for others will be very severe and negative consequences for work incentives will be substantial.’