Thread: council tax to be replaced by local derivatives ?
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Old 16-01-2004, 11:03   #7
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Re: council tax to be replaced by local derivatives ?
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Originally Posted by trebor
so a question for everybody that is old enough to remember paying it.
Has anybody seen any improvement in what the council provides since the rates system was abolished.
I haven't but the bill has gone up 500%
Too young for rates, but a lot of the reason is that rates collected say 5% of the councils spend and the balance was paid by central govt.

Now Council tax collects a far higher proportion of the council spend so will be higher. Also the police, fire etc proportion of council tax keeps spiraling up and while the central govt contribution has remained static they keep managing to reclaim more back through other taxes for example the 1% on NI.

In this instance you pay your tax and NI, someone in your eer and the IR collect it and pay it to the govt, someone else in central govt pays this (and more cash) to the local council, who pay staff who pay NI which the council collects and pays to central govt. doh.
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