Thread: council tax to be replaced by local derivatives ?
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Old 19-01-2004, 08:13   #24
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Cool Re: council tax to be replaced by local derivatives ?
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Originally Posted by trebor
I can agree with everything you have said except the above,

I wish may wages/ income had risen by 500% over the past few years in line with the rises in coucil tax.
The problem with that is that council tax is the tax generated to cover the cost of services provided by the council. If you give council workers a massive pay rise, the council tax goes up massively too.To be fair, council tax also rises if your council wastes money on ill thought-out, expensive schemes.

Councils need to find more efficient ways of getting things done, which allows the workers to receive a fair wage without overburdening council tax payers.And councils need to ensure that any projects they dream up are wanted by local people and are going to give them long term benefits.
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