Its a little bit like this rubbish in the papers at the moment about having to rename 'christmas lights' as 'winter lights' - usual case of pc gone wrong!
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I've just opened a letter offering me an interview for a really cool job!
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Hmmm... the last few days my luck seems to have taken a turn up, perhaps I should buy a lottery ticket?
Sorry, I just had to get that off my chest, Mrs. DP is out at work so I can't :bounce: at her yet.
Just because I have a nice view from my house and a driveway for my car, how does that equate to putting out more rubbish, having more street lights than the guy across the road without my view and having more bobbies on the beat patrolling my side of the road instead of his?
Sorry, you've lost me on this. I already pay my council Tax based on what my house is valued, why add another reason which is not directly connected to the services I'm already paying for?
Mal
I live in a house by a river .......... in a quiet little village. (well I did before Steve took me off to his cave) :giggle:
Rubbish is only collected once a fortnight ........... no street lights ...........no local police............ no facilities ....... no nothing ................... and my council tax is much much higher than someone who lives 14 miles up the road in the nearest town with far more being provided by their local council !
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Steph
you're missing the point.
If a footballer is earning £15,000 a week (can't be much of a footballer for one thing!) and has paid millions for his property, he is already paying more in council tax. He is also paying a lot more through income Tax and National Insurance costs, plus he is unlilely to be a burden on the NHS as he will have private medical insurance.
If the allowances you claim or cannot claim are not sufficient for your needs, then it is those allowances you need to look at, not just lump it onto a different argument. Your situation is justified for a separate argument, but not this one, it's irrelevent.
Mal
Ah, now Council Tax is a bee who buzzes angrily in my bonnet.
I don't work. There are good reasons for that - I'm not going to explain that unless pushed. My income goes up by about two per cent a year but sometimes council tax goes up by twenty per cent. How long before my entire income goes to the council? I did a spreadsheet a year or two ago and it's about twenty years. My biggest bill is council tax.
A couple lof years ago I applied for Council Tax Benefit. The procedure is demeaning. The clerk who helped me introduced himself as John Smit (it's ok, mods - that isn't his real name). I said "hello John" and he said "That's Mr Smith to you". AND I ACCEPTED IT.
After showing my last two months bank statements and answering what I saw as really intrusive questions I was awarded 23 pence a week.
A year later Mr Smith wrote to me asking me to apply agaim.
I Didn't - and I won't until I have to.
Council Tax has to be based on "Ability to Pay" ie, an income tax.
Mollie
The thing is if you need help paying council tax it is there, if you are on a low income you can get help towards it, b4 i started working and we was on family credit with Pauls job we got about 60% of our council tax payed for us, if your not working you don't pay any anyway, if you have a income which is over what they say you need to live on then you pay full tax as we now do since i started woring as well, so everyone does not pay the same anyway, if you need it the help is there
it is based on ability to pay if you don't work you don't pay it
if your on a low income you get help with paying
if you can pay you do pay
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