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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• Item Type
• Journal Item
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• 1467-9302
• Extra Information
• This article has been published online and will have print publication in September: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09540962.2016.1206750
• Keywords
• council tax; property tax; revaluation; tyranny of the status quo; Welsh government
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies > Economics
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS)
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• Innovation, Knowledge & Development research centre (IKD)
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• Rajiv Prabhakar