It has been nearly 2 years since the UK government reformed the system of local business rates to introduce a uniform business rate (UBR), but the debate continues over the merits of the new system. The change across regions in the revenues raised by the uniform system of business rates...

The introduction of the Community Charge - or 'poll tax' - in April this year brought the issue of local government finance to the forefront of British politics. The heated political controversy, and the radical nature of the reforms to local domestic and business taxation, have generated...

The revolutionary political changes in Eastern Europe since the autumn of 1989 have meant that the medium-term strategic assumptions made by the UK and its allies are currently undergoing a full-scale re-examination. In November 1990 in Paris, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)...