MP James Heappey called on the Prime Minister this week to make sure rural areas get a fair share of business rates income.
The MP spoke in the House of Commons on January 23 and said funding for local public services was one of the big questions at Westminster and welcomed the devolution of business rates.
He said: "I have no doubt that the retention of business rates will encourage local councils to be more entrepreneurial and will rejuvenate economic developments departments in city and county halls.
"The funding per capita to predominantly rural local authorities is significantly below than those in predominantly urban authority areas.
Mr Heappey also said rural areas had continued to be at a disadvantage as a result of a legacy of old funding formulas.
"The current review into local government funding needs to be accelerated and needs to be accelerated urgently.
"Somerset residents are getting their bins collected less often, the libraries are open less, youth clubs have lost their funding and bus routes are being lost.
"Somerset County Council has done a great job at running into this headwind.
"Often the councils with the greatest costs from rurality and an ageing population are often those with the smallest business rate bases.
"We need a full review of local government funding so that our county councils, our district councils and councils all over the UK can operate with some certainty so that we don't have to have this year by year cut of services that annoys our constituents."