Coronavirus: will council tax be scrapped?

Councils offer financial support to vulnerable families but won’t suspend payments

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(Image credit: Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

A petition calling for council tax payments to be suspended during the coronavirus outbreak has attracted nearly 100,000 signatures.

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