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The town bracing for UK’s biggest council tax rise of almost 16%
Council tax rates have been frozen or capped for much of the last two decades in Scotland, but this year the Scottish government has granted local leaders the power to go their own way. Falkirk's tax hike is the UK's most extreme case.
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Catherine Mochar
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Claire Hamilton and William Reid
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Independent councillor Laura Murtagh
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