Households could face massive hikes in council tax under a plan understood to be under consideration by Rishi Sunak and chancellor Jeremy Hunt as they struggle to fill a 60bn black hole in the government finances.Ministers are said to be thinking the unthinkable as they try to find a way to balance the books in Mr Hunt's crucial 17 November Autumn Statement, which is expected to set out an austerity package of spending cuts and tax rises.
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