Should council tax be scrapped?
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If the government can give money to foreign countries then we are paying too much TAX!
Scrap council TAX.
We get taxed out of are eye balls bro income tax,national insurance,road tax,council tax
@@theagency-ps9ev yep 😮💨
Ah yes the great money launder war.
Not just that. When you get council tax every April it has the breakdown of each service is allocated. If we are not getting any of the services listed why should people pay?
@@genigeni9335 i looked into tax and national insurance and both pay the same things same as if a person has a tax code of 1250 means they can earn 12,500 befor paying tax the tax man takes the money straight away befor you even earned it so how can they claim its tax free allowance
Council tax should be scrapped disgusting
and who will pay for the bins to be collected you logic is not sound
@@apocalypticweasel9078 back to Rates again.
Can you suggest an alternative way to fund council services?
Council tax is another layer of tax that we pay from money that has already been taxed.
We already pay income tax!!!!
That pays for services!!!
No need for council tax!!!
no it doesn't
My local council was recently quoted £25k for 3 metres of fencing. Work would take 3 months. I kid you not. Taxpayers money is just funneled into the pockets of private contractors that provide sun standard services.
Ban council tax
And you don't think it will be replaced with something else?
@@ChrisAndCats exactly that it has to be there its how councils make money to re-invest in the local area that and parking charges or fines
Get rid of it. Poor people are already taxed heavily without it!
Poor people don't pay it
Pensioners, disabled and the unemployed, with less than app £5000 in savings, don't pay it.
@@dinaworkman306this is hilarious, you seriously think poor people don't have to pay council tax? Who do you class as poor? Do you think pensioners just over the pension credit limit don't somehow have to pay? Or is it that everyone who doesn't claim social security isn't poor? Most people living in poverty are in work.
We don’t have libraries
Our streets are dirty unwashed
Only every2 weekly bin collection
Not to mention the wide scale lack of public toilets that are accessible to disabled people. I was asked once by a blind lady with her guide dog asking me where the nearest disabled toilet was as she needed one large enough to take her dog inside with her, and I felt SO bad not being able to tell her because so far I hadn't seen any!.
Bin collections are another. In the area I live, which is supposed to be a social housing sheltered housing area (I qualify because I have high functioning Autism), we have to share around six communal recycle bins. These bins are NOT used correctly, they often contain things like used cat litter, bike tyres and electrical items. The bin storage areas are also crawling with rats, crows, pigeons and foxes. This means all the people who do recycle, including people like me who actually take the time to wash and squash everything, have their waste taken to landfill. It's not very often one of these bins makes it to the recycling centre. Also recently the council decided to fit these bins with small slits in the top so if you have anything large like a big tough cardboard box, you can't get it in unless you spend ages cutting it into tiny pieces. There are lots of elderly people round here who physically can't do that. I have no choice, we're not allowed our own blue bin and you can't recycle, yet I am still charged for recycling.
Yes. Doesn't matter how much they charge from us , it will never be enough.
I have to go and cut 7 foot brambles and shrubs then brush the public used lanes of leaves ect my self, glass is the hazard when folk and dog s walking on it they can't see, reported but deaf years on home working staff. Ofcouncil.
Spain is such a clean country, rubbish is collected DAILY, even on the biggest cities. It is absolutely disgusting how in the UK everybody leaves their rubbish outside in the pavement, DIS GUS TING.
1 weekly bin collection 😂
Council tax, work tax, parking permits to park on your road you pay tax for any,tv license,Road tax , and many many more we as a nation are getting scammed they are milking us from all sides 😢
bukkaked
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Weeds all over the street, streets never washed, pot holes, fading road markings ….. I can go on
لیبر ہماری پارٹی ہے
Looking more like a third world country everyday!
@@alanhargreaves-thevoiceofr2361 We know, that's why the country is failing. DEPORT
then next time theres a local election for your council vote for one that is going to change things
With all the taxs we pay We should not be paying council tax.
How do we then finance local government?
However it was financed before council tax and poll tax
@@notelpatsxela: that was the rates and based on the value of your property.
I don't mind paying council tax. It's income tax I want abolished. Why should the government take a cut from the money I earned just because they said so? They'll just send it to Ukraine.
@@eattherich9215 Get rid of it.
Paying vast amounts for town hall chief executives to have a gold plated pension , and for council employees to take a week to do a days work , its a financial crime against property owners .
Exactly, a person in the council who does the same job as me get more holidays, higher pay and don't even do as much. It's a crime.
@@ShrunkedDudeit’s not just the council
The civil service have the most laziest people I’ve met. It should be a crime for the lack of work the people do at the jobcentre and the DWP.
30% of council tax payments go to councillors' pension.
There should be no council tax. We already pay taxes on our wages and that should be used for public services and resources. Property, council and inheritance tax is all theft.
Just because your property is worth, because of inflation, doesn’t mean you could afford to pay a lot more. Those who bought what they can afford at the time have seen the property value increase way ahead of their income.
Ask yourself, "Why am I forced to pay any tax from my property if it totally belongs to me?". "Do Ctax really is mandatory and for who?", "Do CTAX really goes to pay for bins collection and education system?", If yes it cannot be called a free education system. Why is someone scaring me with a fine, when I have never been provided with information in details (offer) to know if I really need "services" offered by any council. And the most important, "Who can provide me with an original, signed by me agreement to pay CTAX?"
Scrapped and every penny paid back to everyone whos had to pay it
Yes it’s unfair…. It should be abolished!!!!!!! 😤😤😤😤😤😤
Social cleansing for poor people living in relatively affluent areas.
Poor people don’t live in affluent areas. If you can afford a nice house then you can afford to pay abit more council tax surely
@@Joe11-fl1hythey have to have social housing in many areas.......
@@Joe11-fl1hy: 'Poor people don’t live in affluent areas.' I guess Kensington & Chelsea is not an affluent area because that is where Grenfell Tower is located surrounded by multi-million pound residences.
@@Joe11-fl1hy That simply does not apply in cities. As pointed out by the other comment.
@@Joe11-fl1hy Why should we have the tax at all? Other countries do fine without it. We need to stop paying bigwig old boys club vast sums of money
The value of your house has nothing to do with the services used
Yes scrap it. We have too high a council tax and we get back minimum services. They cannot even manage regular bin collection. Police is well …. Depends who you are. Even job centres .. depends who you are. Roads are terrible, untidy and unclean. Town centres are not safe. The UK is falling apart.
It's a dump
The UK has fallen apart already. I fully see the depth of damage.
The bedroom tax needs scrapping
If people invested in themselves, married and stayed the distance, created business, wealth or just...you know...worked, we wouldn't have such a huge public sector bill and there would be no need to tax the indolent. There would be no migration either.
@@SENEX12do you know what the bedroom tax is ? And who it applies to? If we lived in a country that actually encouraged its citizens , instead of the constant divide and conquer, and gaslighting that we get , and maybe if we didn’t fund wars and death in other countries we could use the money to help people thrive here , you know help cut down on the public sector bill , that the sick or disabled, or even the lazy don’t even make a dent in that pot . Do you know if people were paid proper wages & given proper contracts & hours , they wouldn’t need to claim universal credit , they might even feel some self worth and even stay the distance . Years ago you earned an honest days pay in exchange for an honest days work , but I’m afraid in today’s society everyone seems to have forgotten their worth.
@@SENEX12 Most people on benefits have a job but the pay is too low to survive on. Bedroom tax is taken off the amount they need to keep a roof over their head. And so they see no point in working, and may even leave the workforce as a result. So you see, bedroom tax hurts us all. Educate yourself.
That was made up tax how dare they treat their citizens like this everything is taxed so council tax should be abolished because as the tax goes up our services go down it's a big scam by the government.
It should be abolished absolute useless roads still dirty
I seriously think council tax needs to finish
Government should only have one payment a year
They do chatge you once a year. thousands, but us worker bee's have to have it broken down to monthly payments which is now a criminal offence not to pay,no matter how unachievable those payments are.
Even if they do so, they still tax you when you spend, they tax you on everything you need to live like fuel and utility, they even tax you when you're dead. Government is just like mob that legally rob you for your entire life.
They already do have it - income tax
It's just a smokescreen to put up tax significantly. Council tax went up every year !
Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why should a person living on their own pay just 25% less than a family of 6 /10 or whatever when the large family use a hell of a lot more services, never been fair
When the poll tax replaced rates, our bill more than doubled. When council tax came in, it more than doubled again. Any change is simply a means to squeeze even more from the ordinary British public.
That's because you had a lot of people in one house
Gov scam.
with a U
They give you hope to prevent us taking actions
Yup, hopium.
Tax as a general rule in the UK is unfair. If you play by the rules, work hard and look after yourself, you get relentlessly punished financially. We're long overdue our 1776 moment.
I dont really have any issue with the tax itself, but the differences between properties is insane. For example. Me and my partner live in a 1 bed flat, yet we pay more council tax than my parents who live in a 4 bed detached house with a huge garden in the same town.
Baffling.
Should be a lot less I can tell you that! It’s ridiculous how much it costs.
Should be based on how many people live in the property not that value of the property
it pays for council services. It should be based on usage. if one person lives in a property they should pay less (in fact the lowest amount) than 2 or 3 etc
It's almost like the Poll Tax was in many ways more fair and less punitive than the Council Tax that replaced it. Why should a single person on a low income (say, a pensioner on the basic pension of £168 per week, or someone who's working on a zero hours contract) pay the same as a household that has, say, 5 adults of working age in it (eg, a HMO)?
I'm out in the sticks. We get the bin collection and we have 4 street lights. That's about it in terms of council services. The roads are falling apart, drainage ditches aren't cleared, our rural police force works day shufts only and is based nearly 20 miles away and we have one school which is massovely underfunded. Why should I be paying the same as someone in the middle of my local town that gets far more from the council?
There was nothing wrong with the Poll Tax. I ended up paying three times as much when it changed. Now paying £2000 a year on a pension for next to nothing services that I don’t use. Just waiting for the single discount to be taken away now.
Of course there was something wrong with the poll tax you ignoramace
How can we have a tax where a retured couple are paying the same council tax as a neighbour with five working adults.
Bring back the Poll Tax.
@@nicolaholloway9861 Clueless
@@nicolaholloway9861 pensioners should pay more as they consume lots more of social services - funded by council tax.
@@paul_london The counter that another would put forwards is 'but they already paid via past tax payments.' It's a broken system. No one wants to fix it, because they might not get a new office chair. Or, they fear an underutilised service will be cut, like street lights on from 4-7pm at the height of summer. Very important.
Only thing is, what's a fair valuation of it's not been sold in 20-30 years???
paying the police for nothing joke
Look at the wealth and power of those who live in rich boroughs of London and you'll see why it's a broken system.
I built a my house myself and I pay £ 1600 more than any one else in the street ,I have appealed and they won’t come out and don’t want to know they just keep ripping us of,council tax is not legal the system is corrupt if every one stood together it would change.
So how would you suggest how local council services are paid for??
Banding should be fairer and there should be more bands 500k 1mill 2 mill etc so that those who own these houses pay more.
@@angietowey For one,they can stop wasting money on ludacris parties and expenses, take a normal bonus and pension and stop the nepotism in throwing up buildings unfit for purpose and over inflated costs because they give friends and family contracts. So gross, these Boomers are run rampant in government with their greedy paws in so many draws
@@angietoweystop wasting it on people who refuse to do anything for society?
@@chappy2121 They cant they need to keep spending or the whole debt system will collapse. 😞
@@mikythesaint6507 Look, I've got an idea. You pay your tax, but then you have your kids pay you a percentage, and then their kids pay them. Then the guy you pay taxes too charges them separately. I think we can fix the problem in, say, two-to-three more Parliaments.
Even worse with new builds as council refuses to adapt new area leaving us to pay a service charge to private companies. That will soon increase. So we pay council tax plus a service charge.
That is completely wrong
Wrong!
Imagine getting punished for adding value to your home. Spend your hard money after paying tax improving home and neighbourhood and paying more tax. I’ve seen more intelligence at the bottom of ponds.
People shouldnt have to pay council tax we pay rent and pay for our garden bins people are strugling it should be stopped people are paying to many bills already
scrap council tax
Same with me I have older mother living with me and my tax has gone up from 80 pounds to 148 pounds a month also I have worked all my life because I have work pension I am not entitled to anything benefits it’s so difficult too live with out any help..
Everyone is entitled to the state pension at some age
@rjScubaSki until then it's a struggle.
@@rjScubaSki Even if you haven't paid a penny into the system. That's what is wrong.
So they say high council tax is because of more services?
What services?
They have cut those services we had to the bone..
Anybody like to have a pee when out? Tough thy have closed all but one toilet in the town and the]at is right down the far end with parking charged to go to it.
Why are the council spending millions on cycle paths that are not used
The bedroom tax is a total discrase why should you have to pay for having a spare bedroom who thought of the bedroom tax is an idiot it should be stopped
Why not make it worse?
We could add extra charges, like restaurants do - service fees, "tips" (bribes) and all that good stuff.
We could even increase the rates for the most vulnerable, such as the elderly and the chronically depressed.
Labor would like to do this
Worse than the conservative govt
The Poll Tax wasn’t actually a bad idea in principle. What it needed was reform to take account of individuals on lower incomes ability to pay it, in the way that we have single payer discounts and council tax benefits now.
Agreed. They needed to ensure a single person in a mansion wasn’t paying less than a family in a terrace.
If they’d have sorted those bits of nonsense out it would have been fine.
Their mistake was allowing the public to pay it themselves, it should have been taken at source like PAYE, the government gave in to mob rule and riots, how times have changed.
If you disagree with the main feature of a poll tax; that it is levied per person rather than in proportion to financial means you clearly do not agree with the principle as you want it adjusted for income - ie an income tax ??
They did, students didn't pay it
@@andyinsuffolk It should be in proportion to the size of the household. For example why should single people have to pay for everyone elses kids who are often on benefits anyway taking up more tax payers money
The poll tax was far fairer
Council tax should be abolished, you’re paying for services you don’t use and some services are substandard that you’d refuse to pay it anyway, one pays enough tax for central government to pay it. I’m seriously think of not paying, there are a few suggestions on here that shed some light on the topic.
Most beneficial for the very wealthy .... Surprise surprise !!!!!
Why should we even pay council tax in the first place if you bought a house as a freehold, it should be your property for life so what are the extras taxes for, it is not our job to fund the council services. As taxpayers we pay more than enough of taxes
Do you trust this Labour government to fix the council tax problem? Yes, it needs fixing. But not by the current government!
I'd doubt the Conservatives would be any better. In fact, they probably do it worse. 14 years and a bunch of councils went bankrupt in the last couple of years due to stupid investments with no oversight or assessments.
yes it should be scrapped , the poll tax was much fairer.. pay by the number of people over 18 in the household!!!!
Yes it should be bloody scrapped it's absolutely ridiculous jus like the TV licence 🤦
My house has been wrongly banded but the council refuse to review it.
We pay council tax who then give it to the government, who take their cut then dish it back to the councils, so we have cash scrapped councils giving nothing back, litter everywhere, libraries closed, services gone, Add ten pence to income tax and scrap council tax!
Scrap council tax it’s like it’s been said if we can give billions to foreign country’s we’re paying to much tax
I dont think we should pay council tax we all pay to much tax and rent its about time it was stopped no. Wonder we havent got much money it all goes on paying bills and food
We should all demand that the council tax should be stopped we already pay tax and it goes to the imigrants hotels
One thousand percent yes it should be abolished for good its over the top
Yes stop council tax
People who live in poverty are already struggling to pay for food and heat there homes . It is very unfair on people that are the most vulnerable. Scrap council tax
Council tax pays for access to local services, this should be based on occupancy NOT value of property. A 5 bed dettached with 2 people inside will be less of a drain on council, than a 3 bed semi with a family of 5.
What services enlighten me?
@@slats8376 depends on where you live, you should ask your council if you are unclear.
For my area its waste collections, parks, libraries, social services, etc.
Agreed, my local council have issued us a smaller bin because only 2 of us, yet we pay same council tax as next door family of 4. £220 a month 3 bed semi!
@bicks82 waste collection is sanctioned by multi million pound contracts and they profit off your waste. One big money making scheme. Library's have been closed here, parks are hardly maintained. Roads are shocking yet 30% goes to their golden pensions, climate scam projects and wars. It's all a con because I have requested answers from our council.
Only corporations should be taxed, the people should not! That goes for all other forms of taxation as well.
How about getting those tax dodging companies to start paying their taxes.....
How about stop sending billions abroad to start with.
Absolutely.its always the rich who live off the poor
Council tax is a con...supposed to pay for public services..the council tax goes up and the quality of the service goes down.
SO WHY DO WE HAVE TWO COUNCILS ..THE LOCAL TOWN COUNCIL AND THEN THE COUNTY COUNCIL?
The whole system is a cottage industry that is designed to scare people into paying a non existent contract that nobody was consulted as anybody will know who has been through the COUNTY COURT enforcement trap.
The council hire a county court for a day.
Employ a Baristor to advise the Magistrates to remind them of their legal duties according to law.
Present your birth certificate to the court usher and ask him and the Magistrates to give you their oath under common law of the land as abused to statute law the law of the sea.
The Magistrates will then leave the bench game over!
Crazy tax. A tax based on a mythical time machine. Say no more. It's my second biggest Bill!!
It's my biggest now, yep it's more than my mortgage.
Its like road tax, we pay so much yet the roads are shocking and genuienly unsafe in places. Tax tax tax is all they want to do and we dont see it being put to use
Road tax hasn't been a thing since the 1920s. Vehicle excise duty just goes to the general tax pool.
Council tax is unfair, because if you are home renter why do you have to pay council tax. It should be paid by the building owner, or wherever you are renting. This system is unfair to a renters.
It would just be added to the rent.
Yes, it should be scrapped.
I get very little for it, so, yes.
The charge should be per person not person household
I live in Bournemouth, The local council refused to pay a £50,000 cleaning bill and yet they have enough money to build a mass of buildings for students that probably cost millions, I'd like to add that my mother has been stuck in a care facility for nearly 4 years now when she's fit enough to come home, they keep her in there because it's an excuse to suck the hard earned wages out of the average worker, they do not care about families and the lives they destroy. All we're doing is funding a bunch of snobs who should not be trusted to run a bath, let alone a country. We do not need to pay council tax. this is my advice to everyone: Stop Paying Council Tax. They don't need it, They don't deserve it, they merely want it because they are greedy.
They will and have locked up many people, even OAPS for refusing to pay council tax
Thought 11 million went missing there?
If you have two properties one double the price in a town with the same number of occupants, both properties get the same service. So why is it fair to say that one person should pay more for exactly the same service just because their house/flat is worth more. So what is fair about that? When you go to the supermarket or put petrol in your car you don't pay more because your house is valued higher than someone else's.
Government: alright alright, we shall get rid of "council tax".
Also Government: alright now we are introducing 'property tax''!
Council tax is essentially a property tax. Except the poor pay a lot more than the rich.
@@firefox3249 Bullsh1t . Property tax would be much worse, at least if you are retired or on low wages you could still live in your house. with property tax you would have to sell it. your full of it Firefox , bot or paid shill. bet you voted for the old to get no winter fuel. 😞
@@firefox3249the major difference is property tax is paid by owners, council tax is paid by occupants.
There should not be either property tax or council tax, we pay enough, VAT, income tax, tax in petrol, inflates bills, etc,
Soon carbon tax if they succeed.
Tax it is legalised theft of working people
@@ItsMeAshley0347 Except occupants will pay for it via increased rent.
.council tax, income tax, VAT, airport tax,insurance tax,stamp duty, car tax,petrol tax.Need I go on. Time to rebel.
I honestly don't understand how anyone is willing to pay council tax knowing full well that your council is bankrupt due to incompetence not due to funding. Not only that our counties aren't improving and they haven't done since the 70 and 80s. Why is it that Japan's streets and services are clean, modern and work perfectly yet they don't pay any taxes to a council to keep the services working. We are being robbed in this country and the fact that we pay over 2 billion per year in council taxes and have services that don't work and counties that are crumbling proves it so. At the end of the day its we the people who are allowing this, the longer we do nothing about the longer things take to change for the better.
5 years council tax free,over 20 bailiffs have come and gone without a penny, when you know the real law all they can do is threaten violence
Well tell everyone how's it's done 😂
They rent and don't give their names @@prizeking1647
What...How?
@@prizeking1647 world of books has great deals on law books
Teach me the way
Given our councils only invest into certain towns and not equally across the county, i would like to pay for bin collection only atcthis point 🧐
Should only pay council tax based on the services received, not the value of the property.
Get rid of it
It's individual people that benefit from council services, not houses. So Margaret Thatcher's poll tax would have been a much fairer scheme. Unfortunately, and uncharacteristically, she caved in to far-left rioters. There are little old ladies freezing alone in their home while a whole family opposite them is enjoying luxury holidays, nights out, and flash cars, while paying the same council tax.
Agree but the changes should have been done incrementally.
I never understood why we had it in the first place. Council in my area are scamming working class people.. they are charging council tax yet charging again for things like uplifts
We are paying huge council tax for only weekly rubbish bin collection.
Paying council tax around £1500 per year is only for bin collection?
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At least you got weekly collection, I only got biweekly!
Taxed from arsole to breakfast time to giv big fat saleries to council leaders and ther cronies
What's with the dystopian background music? 😆😆
Sound editor went way too hard on this one 😂
Its just reflecting the dystopian country we now live in under the socialist dictators - labour
0.5% of £600,000 is £3000 a year and only £250 a month.
Even on £1M property is only £5000 a year.
Poll tax was ok. It would have been fair on the number of people able to live in a building.
The administration was difficult and expensive.
Poll tax was dangerous? Everyone went on riot + didn't help raise money?.... Bested idea 💡 would be have private company + recycling companies buy up the problem. Than local communities have stocks + shares in making they're local communities great again . The problem with council tax is that nothing gets better + will also need more money + investment. If communities could have shares + stocks in they're communities than everyone would improve they're local communities + help the people around.? ... local areas need more boxing gyms + places where older people can go for fun + relax. Communities could be built up better! If everyone had shares + stocks in they're local communities.
Government should be making money off recycling + helping people build up better communities. The problem is council tax will never work long-term? Council's don't believe in better areas that can make money! .... Council's will also be over paid + never get good results. 3rd problem with council's taxes is never fixes the problem! Only kick the tin down the road? Every pod hole in the uk could be fixed with recycled materials + help make everyone in the uk not pay council tax???? No point in council's tax.... bad management. No one in the uk should be paying more 50 pound a year on council tax. Just bad management.
Dan Neidle is right, the current system is absurd, but it is no less absurd than the old rates system which was replaced by the poll tax.
The problem with people in Westminster paying less than in Blackpool is of course simply a function of any system which has local people paying for local services and rich areas need fewer council services than poor areas. This has been made worse by the fact that central govt. contribution to local authority funding has in real terms been steadily declining.
The fairest system would be a local income tax but that is complicated to implement because too many people have an irritating tendency to move from one local authority area to another part way through the tax year. You would have thought that with the power of modern computer systems this would be manageable but HMRC's systems still run on steam power!
Any system which is based on property, whether it is Council tax, a tax on value, runs into 2 inevitable problems. The first is that "value" whether it is of the property or the land is a disputable subjective opinion, ask 2 property valuers and you are lucky if you only get 2 different values! And of course if there is enough money at stake people will challenge any council valuer - this is standard for large commercial property. The second problem is the "little old granny problem" which is shorthand for how do you deal with someone who bought their house 40+ years ago when the area was run down and prices were cheap and now lives on their single person pension but the area around them has been gentrified and house prices are very high? In part this is what made the Council Rates system politically unacceptable in the late 1980s. We cannot have a system that requires pensioners living on relatively small fixed income to sell up and move if at the same time you are against the so called bedroom tax which required pensioners living in rented accomodation on a relatively small fixed income to be penalised, and effectively forced to downsize, for having more than the govt. mandated number of rooms.
At its heart this is a problem of having local democracy - and I hope everyone agrees local democracy is a good thing. Local democracy requires local taxation of some sort if only so that voters can tell if local politicians are being sensible with local money.
Soooo extra 0.5% rate on mortgage..... thanks 👏
The millionaires won’t just pay more, us in bands A-C will also get shafted!
Yes. it is the most unfair tax ever, A person with house costing 2million can end up paying as much as someone in a council flat.
£1686 per year for a 1 bedroom flat in social housing. I work full time, but on minimum wage. The council tax is roughly 1/10th of my annual income.
Remove Council Tax annndd guess what, a New firm of Poll Tax will replace it, we ain't dum!🤔😒🙄
What the F.. so if a house valued at £200,000 has to pay 0.5% tax that's £1K a year. I'd go for that in a heart beat as I'm already paying £2K.
Considering how many new taxes we are burdened with I think all tax should be scrapped. We can't afford the rich lifestyles our MPs give themselves on the money they print.
1991 prices wtf??????? Which house it's worth 40k so I can buy it
You wouldn't even get a ruin for that price these days because even the land it sat on alone would be worth more than 40k. I have never heard anything so stupid in all my life. I didn't even know this until I watched this video this morning!. Why should someone in a Westminster penthouse pay less than someone in social housing?!. That's ludicrous as well!.
The 1991 value is relative. It’s not that hard to extrapolate the costs backwards.
Westminster is a special case because so many MPs have houses there. It’s better funded from central government grant that all councils get.
I really despise people like the lawyer in this clip. Why does he think that it’s fair for people who have no more income to subsidise people in the north who already have cheaper living costs? Council tax pays for the local services you all consume. You want more you pay more. When you have somewhere like Birmingham where the council has been badly run then there is a price to pay. That’s why local democracy matters because it should cost you appropriate amounts which you have influence at the ballot box.
Revaluing because someone has invested in their house is just robbing people. My next door neighbour has turned his house into a tip and knocked at least £20k off the value of my house my council tax should go down if anything. Basing this on house value now will increase cost for a lot of people who don’t have the money to pay it. Pensioners again will be screwed for what so councils can waste more money?
This is another tax grab from central government so they can reduce funding and blame it on something you have no control of. Labour are trash and we need them gone.
It’s the equivalent value, that’s why any property built since April 1991, the council has to do an assessment to work out its theoretical value back then. It’s a complete nonsense.
Some crime ridden shithole up north 😂
I'm afraid it's bonkers.
My house 4 bedroom with garage has been built in 2003.
Sold for 97k. I bought it for 280k last year.
Checking prices it should be round 50k in 1991 so Band B
Sadly I pay over £2500 of tax as it's band E.
So how did they worked that out?
Any recent property is been robbed off by councils.
Huge mansions in my area with big land pay a similar tax to my house with medium garden.
I don't think that'd fair especially our bins are next to other people and takes 60s to do me and neighbours whereas in rural areas some of these mansions it takes 5 or more minutes to get into the bins and than drive to that mansion and than to neighbours.
So we cost less to maintain and pay more for the service?
What is going on?
Council Tax is a regressive tax. It punishes the poorest, as a percentage of their income, by the most. A flat tax per peson would be fairer! Oh wait, that's what Thatcher wanted!
Well im struggling to pay it. Not to mention we have to pay for green bins seperately now in liverpool, which is such a pain in the asrse. Just add it to the council tax! dont make it an extra thing we have to sign up for! Also, crappy zero hour jobs and a lot of self employed work is not reliable, not to mention job agencies (i've actually found an ok job via an alright agent recently, 1 of only 2 agents who i consider decent, out of easily a hundred). I mean, realistically, the council gets their money, when i get mine (mine = enough money to buy food, survive + bills). So the council and goverment should get to work on building a robust economy, with enough jobs, build housing for the homeless and housing crises, invest in sustainable infrastructure, and monitor the job maket to see what industries are developing and whats not. Also to make sure businesses are paying tax. Freaking hell, multi national billion dollar companies can get away with not paying tax, but you miss 1 council tax payment and they threaten you with court!
They must be recycling .so making money on what is collected. Why an extra charge.