Re: Sun Tel: Secret council tax database penalises homes with a view

On Mar 24, 1:56 pm, "Terry D" <terry.dut...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/com>
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On Mar 23, 2:37 pm, "tim \(not at home\)" <tims_new_h...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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"Papadillos" wrote
Secret council tax database penalises homes with a view

Patrick Hennessy and Ben Leapman
Sunday Telegraph
Last Updated: 2:05am GMT 23/03/2008

Millions of homes face higher council tax bills after
being logged as having off-street parking or a
pleasant view, The Sunday Telegraph can disclose...

What's the big surprise?
As a property's council tax band is based on its value, and
that value is affected by such things as "a nice view" and
off-street parking, everyone should expect that the council tax
could be higher if you have any of those "desirable features"...

Yep. I really cannot understand the newspapers' obsession with this issue.

It's fine to argue about whether there should be a revaluation or not. But
it's nuts to nit-pick over how it the value is to be obtained, especially
given that everyone agrees the previous method was a joke.

It's simple.  It's the game of political scaremongering.  Tory central
office knows it's a hot potato that ordinary folk don't really
understand.  So all they have to do is pick up on some procedural
aspect of council tax - neglecting to mention much of it is little
different from when they were last in power - then twist it into
something sinister and surreptitious, and toss it to the press in the
hope of feeding the general populace's paranoia.  No matter that they
have expressed no plans to do anything different when they come back
to power; spread enough FUD, and eventually come polling day, some of
it will have stuck.  That's the game.

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In my opinion, council tax should be partially based on income as well as
the house value in 1991.  The old poll tax was better than sliced bread to
me.  I was paying Band A tax on a band D property.  I realise that it wasn't
to good for those living in Band A properties, but in my case I was paying
less than half of what I pay now.  Council tax evaluation is completely
arbitrary and is in fact in many cases totally unfair and a complete
shambles

This skips over one simple issue; you don't know how much poll tax
would be today if it still existed. Back in the day, councils'
subsidies from central government funds were much higher, meaning
nowadays, councils need to make up much more of their funding from
local taxes. As such, if they still had poll tax, it would need to
have been massively increased from how much we remember it, just as
council tax has, and just as any proposed replacement distribution
system would be.

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