Politics.co.uk: TaxPayers' Alliance: Council tax cuts are possible

Cost-cutting from local authorities could cut council tax bills by 3.5 per cent, the TaxPayers' Alliance has claimed.

Its latest report, Council Spending Uncovered, says a ten per cent cut in publicity, management and pension costs would allow the discount.

"Council tax has doubled in the last decade and is now so high that it tips many families and pensioners over the edge," chief executive Matthew Elliott said.

"But it doesn't have to be that way. Local authorities of all parties could make meaningful council tax reductions if they saved a modest ten per cent in these three non-priority areas."