THURROCK Council has been given the green light by the government to increase council tax by up to ten per cent – without having to go to residents for a referendum reports Thurrock Nub News.
Councils are normally only allowed to raise tax by five per cent. Should they want any more, they are supposed to ask local people via a poll, but after Conservative councillors on the cash-strapped authority went cap-in-hand to the government seeking a dispensation, it has been given approval to add up to an extra five per cent without a vote.
