Cape Town's Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis has unveiled the "Invested in Hope" budget for 2025/26, promising support for low-income ...

The Cape Town Council has adopted the City’s Invested in Hope Budget for 2025/26, including various rates relief measures and a South African-record R40bn inf ...

Despite some relief measures, the city's new tariff regime that takes effect on 1 July introduces fixed charges for water and ...

UK households face "bleak" living standards for the remainder of the 2020s and some could end up no better off by 2030 than they were a decade earlier, according to a new report.

Cape Town's Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis has unveiled the "Invested in Hope" budget for 2025/26, promising support for low-income ...

Millions of UK households could see their real incomes fall by £200 over the next five years, a new report has warned. The ...

In its "central scenario," the think tank projects that the typical annual real income of non-pensioners is set to grow "only slightly" over the five years after 2024-25, amounting to just 1 per cent ...

It was a couple's dream to have a holiday home by the sea but new council tax rules on second homes meant selling it was a ...

Logan ratepayers will pay more for core services including sewerage, water and waste under the city’s new $1.2 billion budget ...

Susan Pape is facing the prospect of a £60k loss on the sale of her holiday apartment in Filey, North Yorkshire, after the ...

Since April, if used as a second home, the one-bed flat incurs a doubled annual council tax bill of £3,234 – on top of the ...