Local tax favoured
PA Wellington A Labour government would impose big changes on the structure and funding of local government, according to the party’s shadow Minister of Local Government, Dr M. E. R. TJq c cpff A Labour government would also complete a new structure of regional government which would carry more of ■ the present responsibilities of the cen-
tral Government, he told members of the Women’s Electoral Lobby. It would enter into a revenue-sharing arrangement with regional authorities so that thev could do the job and the regions would be given powers to raise their own revenue from sources other than a levy on ratepayers; The alternative to the ratepayer levy he favoured was a regional surcharge on income tax.
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Press, 13 August 1980, Page 21
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