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Originally Posted by Angua
You will also note (if you read back through my previous posts) I looked upon the amount I paid whilst childless as an investment for the future when I will make use of these services. So no cherry picking here. However given the amount of cuts most councils are making there wont be much left by the time I need it.
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I saw that...but I was asking if you supported cherry-picked services? So I assume the answer is no, but you don't actually give an alternative. You say Council Tax is wrong, Poll Tax is wrong - so what's the solution?
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Originally Posted by Angua
With regard to Council tax banding the majority for householders in the district live in properties between band B and band E so there is where the few hundred pounds difference is! The districts charge is only around a difference of £3.50 per band per annum as the charge is so low.
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Do you know how Council Tax works? The District Council charge is always small, the vast majority of the payment goes to County, even though District Councils collect it. It's pretty pointless saying what the District charge if the County charge is expensive!
The average difference between band B and E in your area is nearly £600...so why don't you just say that the difference between Band B and Band D is "only a few hundred Pounds", which would actually be accurate...that would mean you wouldn't have to keep moving the goalposts on each post!
Better still...look at what is
actually does cost you in Council Tax in your area here
http://www.westoxon.gov.uk/files/download/3954-1524.pdf
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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
The % of tax collected via income tax is dropping not the total amount of income tax collected.
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How can it when you drop the lowest rate in tax? Besides, the jump from 2006 to 2007 is over 9% when average earnings increased in the same period by less than 4%.
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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
NI is taxed at a lower % once a threshold is hit hence not strictly income based so big earners pay a smaller % of their income in NI then lower earners.
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Now you've explained what you actually meant we can agree on your definition, which was as I described in my earlier post.