How did the Welsh government manage to reform council tax in 2005?

Prabhakar, Rajiv (2016). How did the Welsh government manage to reform council tax in 2005? Public Money and Management, 36(6) pp. 417–424.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2016.1206750

Abstract

Repeated calls have been made for council tax (CT) in the UK to be reformed. A ‘tyranny of the status quo’ suggests that politicians will avoid this because they fear a backlash from the losers of reform. This paper claims that the tyranny of the status quo is not a fixed law. The Welsh government revalued CT in 2005 but did not communicate the complexity of reform sufficiently. Reform requires greater efforts to communicate the complexity of winning and losing.

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