George Osborne’s shakeup of trade rates will unleash a race among councils to attract businesses,and crematoria provide valuable revenueIf you run a crematorium trade, you may soon be getting a call from a council. In one of the most unlikely unintended consequences of what chancellor George Osborne described on Monday as the biggest transfer of power to local government in living memory, or council finance directors are now looking for current trade to attract in to their area – and death turns out to be a prime candidate.
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Source: theguardian.com