Abstract
Repeated calls have been made for council tax (CT) in the UK to be reformed. A ‘tyranny of the status quo’ suggests that politicians will avoid this because they fear a backlash from the losers of reform. This paper claims that the tyranny of the status quo is not a fixed law. The Welsh government revalued CT in 2005 but did not communicate the complexity of reform sufficiently. Reform requires greater efforts to communicate the complexity of winning and losing.
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I would like to thank PMM’s referees for their helpful comments on an earlier version of this paper. All remaining errors are my own.
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Rajiv Prabhakar
Rajiv Prabhakar is a lecturer in personal finance at the Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.