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Originally Posted by andygrif
We already have income based taxation for National Insurance and Income Tax and to a lesser extent VAT, where those who spend more will pay more.
But what I don't understand is why Council Tax should be income based too, it's a flawed Liberal policy, which is unworkable efficiently and is only aimed at attracting the lower-paid to vote for them - and I would expect to see this one rear its head again in the next election too!
We have a communitry based expenditure for things like schools, waste collection etc and generally these are per capita expenses. It doesn't cost any more for someone earning 50k a year to send their child to school than it does for someone on a low wage - so why should they again pay more?
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Recently the bottom rate of income tax was announced to be dropped and during the past decade the amount of tax paid by income tax has been steadily dropping, this is not a good thing. Within 2 years low earners income tax will double, NI isnt strictly income based like income tax is.
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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. 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.
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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Personally I think the poll tax was fairer then what we have now, at least it addressed situations where many adults each with their own income in a house pay more of a fair share and single people paid half of a couple, of course poll tax wasnt perfect and was generally set to high but the principle of it was better I think.