Sentence examples for less council from inspiring English sources

*An MP can pay less council tax on their main home by telling the local council that their family home is actually their second home.

Osborne's new settlement is likely to hurt towns where cheaper houses yield less council tax, and low business rents translate into low business rates.

The Green Building Council has previously suggested that owners of energy efficient homes should pay less council tax and stamp duty, funded by increases in charges to those with "leakier" homes.

Spurred on by the austerity mantra of "doing more with less", councils are beginning to apply robotic process automation, which mimics human interaction with computer systems, to repetitive tasks such as signing people up for council tax direct debit payments.

Aiming for: Death Row album cover circa 1996; getting: recently deceased pensioner, slowly rotting in an electricty-less council house in Bootle.

"And when you look at the figures, it's not just that those Conservative councils are costing less [in council tax] for a band D property, they're also doing better on measures like recycling and other service delivery.

Some councils rely more on the central grant because they get less in council tax - but the government said no council would face cuts of more than 8.9%, because the worst hit would receive money from an £85m "transition grant" to bring the reduction back to 8.9%.

Less desirable council towers are reaching the end of their habitable lives, facing decay, demolition or expensive repair.

They were paid up to £3 an hour less than council staff in male-dominated but broadly equivalent roles such as bin collecting and street sweeping.

While Rawlins has sympathy for press offices struggling to come to terms with the idea that all citizens can now publish stories about them, he worries that labelling journalists with a "Dacrecard" would not only make his life harder, but also help less scrupulous council departments to hide information.

A Labour candidate in Hertfordshire says potholes are "the worst symbol of this can't-be-touched, couldn't-care-less county council".