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BBKing · 22-03-2004, 14:28

Problem with local income tax as I see it is the cost of the bureaucracy, as there are more people than houses in the country.

Other than that it sounds a fine idea - income tax is the only fair tax anyway. Answering Pierre's point about hard-working pensioners, many pensioners earn nothing like as much as even a low-paid worker, so would presumably be exempt (assuming an allowance below which LIT wouldn't operate, mainly because the cost of collecting it wouldn't be worth it) or pay very little.

BB (third highest council tax in the country going up 5.6% this year ouch and a Tory council too)

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BBKing R.I.P. Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: London Services: 20Mb VM CM, Virgin TV Posts: 5,983	Re: lib dems: we will scrap council tax Problem with local income tax as I see it is the cost of the bureaucracy, as there are more people than houses in the country. Other than that it sounds a fine idea - income tax is the only fair tax anyway. Answering Pierre's point about hard-working pensioners, many pensioners earn nothing like as much as even a low-paid worker, so would presumably be exempt (assuming an allowance below which LIT wouldn't operate, mainly because the cost of collecting it wouldn't be worth it) or pay very little. BB (third highest council tax in the country going up 5.6% this year ouch and a Tory council too)