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

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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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  • Rajiv Prabhakar, 2016. "How did the Welsh government manage to reform council tax in 2005?," Public Money & Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 36(6), pages 417-424, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:pubmmg:v:36:y:2016:i:6:p:417-424
    DOI: 10.1080/09540962.2016.1206750
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