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Council Tax Capping (Surrey)

I will answer that in due course, along with the other points that have been raised. If the authority is now crying foul because it is faced with re-billing costs, it has only itself to blame. The authority is threatening a judicial review to argue that the Secretary of State does not have the power to set a capping principle by reference to a notional amount of council tax. I will therefore not comment further on that matter. However, it is not the case that the authority was first informed about its 2008-09 notional council tax in January 2009, as has been suggested.