The chair of the communities and local government committee has called for a revaluation as part of an overhaul of a 'broken' council tax system. Clive Betts warned that without any action there was a risk that the 'whole system will eventually collapse'. Mr Betts also backed calls for devolved areas - in the first instance London or combined authority areas such as Manchester - to be free to introduce new council tax bands at the top end of the scale and to be able to split existing ones to 'increase fairness in the distribution of the tax burden locally'.
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