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Originally Posted by Angua
One expenditure everyone forgets the Council tax pays for is Highways maintenance on all the local roads and pavements for which households with several cars reap the most benefit.
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Although highways are controlled by county coucils, not all of the expense comes from Council Tax, quite a lot comes from Central Government too for this purpose, funded in part by the Road Tax.
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Originally Posted by Angua
No council tax can ever be fair if it has to be a one size fits all. Poll tax penalised childless couples, council tax penalises pensioners who have worked hard all their lives.
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How did Poll Tax affect childless couples? Poll Tax affected households with lots of adult occupants but few wage earners worst.
Council tax does not penalise pensioners, as they recieve benefits to pay or help pay for it. As far as I can see, there's no real basis for your statements.
And it doesn't matter which method of collection is being used, if the total income has doubled in the last ten years then something is very wrong.
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Originally Posted by Angua
As long as it is only based on where you live it penalises couples rattling round in large houses but not by that much as the difference between a band A property and a band G is only a few hundred pounds at most.
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That's just plain wrong: in my area alone, a band A property is about £800 and a band G property is over £2,000 per year).