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Fife Council offers new pay-by-text service
Fife Council has put a new payment option at people's fingertips. (...)
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Dundee City Council outlines £320 million spending programme 'to support the local economy'
Dundee City Council is to commit a major investment totalling more than £320 million in new and refurbished facilities in schools, housing, community buildings and roads over the next four years. (...)
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School music tuition faces cuts under £3.5m city council savings plan
Dundee's SNP administration has unveiled a £3.5 million package of savings to freeze the council tax for a sixth successive year. (...)
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Councillors warn 'unfunded' council tax freeze will worsen the bite of inflation
Opposition councillors are warning inflation will lead to ''significant cuts'' in Dundee City Council's budget up to 2015. (...)
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Dundee City Council will have to cut another £3.4m
Dundee City Council has said it will have to cut £3.4 million from next year's budget. (...)
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Economic think tank warns business rates being hiked to cushion public spending cuts
Scottish businesses face rates rises worth £849 million over the next three years, according to a new academic study. (...)
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Increased tax on second homes helping to pay for affordable housing projects
Almost half a million pounds from council tax reserves is to be used in affordable housing projects across Perthshire. (...)
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Slow take-up so far for Report Empty Homes website
Only a dozen properties across Tayside and Fife have been listed on a national empty homes website. (...)
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Local authorities taking legal action against council tax dodgers
Councils are launching legal proceedings against thousands of people each year in a bid to recoup millions of pounds of unpaid council tax. (...)
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Fresh warnings after council tax rebate scam resurfaces
Criminals are still taking to the phones in a bid to trick bank details out of unwary people, despite their scam being uncovered months ago. (...)
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Tax credit where it is due — marked collection rate rise in Dundee
Dundee has seen the biggest improvement in Scotland in its council tax collection rate. (...)
Taxi licence application scotches woman's benefits fraud
A 46-year-old Dundee woman who obtained more than £30,000 in benefits by claiming she was a single parent when she was living with a partner was sentenced to 12 months in prison at the city's sheriff court. (...)
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Angus Council pays out £6000 in pothole damage compensation claims
Angus Council has received over 230 compensation claims and paid out nearly £6000 to motorists who say their vehicles were damaged by potholes on the county's roads. (...)
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Debtors warned 'cases will remain open' despite move to write off £1.5m
Over £1.5 million of bad debt is set to be written off by Perth and Kinross Council. (...)
Former church minister put on probation for 18 months for benefit fraud
A former minister who resigned from her Angus parish in disgrace following an affair with a married church elder has been sentenced for benefit fraud. (...)
Partner's taxi licence application revealed woman's £30,000 benefits fraud
A Dundee mother-of-two has admitted benefit fraud totalling more than £30,000. (...)
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Researchers calculate SNP's council tax freeze will cost over £3 billion
The SNP's council tax freeze will have cost over £3 billion by the end of this Scottish parliamentary term, it has emerged. (...)
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Scotland's party leaders make their last-ditch push for votes
Scotland's Holyrood hopefuls will make a last push for votes today as the election campaign enters its final day. (...)
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Council tax freeze and education cuts dominate as Courier hustings series visits Angus South
The council tax freeze and "disgraceful" cuts proposed for Angus College were among issues debated by candidates vying to represent the new Angus South constituency at Holyrood as they went head to head at the latest Scottish Parliamentary hustings organised by The Courier. (...)
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David Cameron enters Scottish election battleground — via the pages of The Courier
Prime Minister David Cameron will enter the Holyrood election battle with a swipe at the two men vying to be First Minister. (...)
