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Originally Posted by Graham
Well the government already *has* access to all your income data etc, so the easiest way would be to include it on the PAYE code which would deal with the vast majority of people in the country. It wouldn't be that difficult to split the money taken into "for the government" and "for X local council".
What about all the people who live at temporary address and move around to where the work is *and* do it cash in hand already?
They're using resources and utilities that everyone else is paying for, but not paying anything themselves. Is that fair?
No, they know what your house was like in 1991, over *twelve years* ago!
I disagree, I think most of those variables are easily dealt with, eg it's very easy to base the tax on a person's income in the previous year (as tax is worked out anyway). If there's a major change, they can appeal, just as they can appeal against council tax.
That's being addressed in another thread, here:
http://forum.nthellworld.co.uk/showp...2&postcount=29
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National government has had access to my tax records, to my knowledge local government doesn't.
I would presume that people following work around and working cash in hand are living in houses they don't own for short periods and the person renting them the house is probably paying it as they wouldn't want their house on a credit blacklist and presumably make enough from the rent anyway.
Surely, a tax on peoples income should be on their income now, not last year. This would be as unfair as this current system or the poll tax.
Why should local councils trust the central government to collect and hand over this money. The whole problem at the moment is that they collect business rates for the government, which hands it back due to their own formula. If this is the case, what is to say that people living in certain areas won't be subsidising others once again, making the concept of a 'local' tax completely false!
The rate at which houses have risen since 1991 would presumably be fairly constant in local areas, meaning it doesn't matter if it's the value of your house now or 15 years ago, it's still a house.