7.The Government set out its proposals for improving local financial accountability, including fulfilling its Manifesto commitment to abolish crude and universal capping, in its Green Paper Modernising Local Government: improving local financial accountability, which was published in March 1998, and Modernising Local Government in Wales: improving local accountability for council tax, published in April 1998. The latest statement of the Government’s policy on improving local financial accountability was contained in Chapter 5 of the White Paper Modern Local Government: In Touch with the People and in Chapter 5 of Local Voices: Modernising Local Government in Wales as above.
Background Council tax regulation