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3 Sep
1:53pm, 3 Sep 2024
17,728 posts
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jda
£1m+ properties are virtually untaxed anyway with council tax. It's some minuscule fraction of a percentage point in places like Kensington.
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3 Sep
1:56pm, 3 Sep 2024
6,343 posts
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paulcook
Exactly. The bandings, afaik, haven't been redrawn since it was introduced. We were taught this was ridiculous when I went to college in 2001. 23 years later and still nothing.
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3 Sep
1:56pm, 3 Sep 2024
17,729 posts
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jda
I don't have figures but would be very surprised if abolishing council tax and raising an equivalent sum on higher-rate income tax didn't take a lot more from the rich and less from the poor than the current system.
Anyone disagree with that claim? It seems self-evident to me.
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3 Sep
1:56pm, 3 Sep 2024
33,025 posts
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Johnny Blaze
Actually more like 26% according to the IFS.
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3 Sep
1:56pm, 3 Sep 2024
17,730 posts
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jda
(TBH probably holds for standard rate income tax too)
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3 Sep
1:57pm, 3 Sep 2024
33,026 posts
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Johnny Blaze
Buckingham Palace pays less council tax than a house in Hartlepool, I heard.
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3 Sep
1:58pm, 3 Sep 2024
33,027 posts
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Johnny Blaze
I assume successive govts haven't changed it because:
1 Something something poll tax look what happened there
2 Too difficult
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3 Sep
2:00pm, 3 Sep 2024
33,028 posts
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Johnny Blaze
I'd be very surprised if Labour changed it any time soon.
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3 Sep
2:01pm, 3 Sep 2024
22,963 posts
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rf_fozzy
Cutting the single person discount on council tax would further entrench the single tax that the world places on people.
And would cost me more than a 1% increase in income tax.
It would also comparatively raise very little.
It's a bizzare suggestion given that everyone recognises that council is firmly broken.
I suspect this is one of those stories that the papers are trying to find gossip (after spending the past 14 years of having lots of tory tittle tattle) and have manufactured.
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3 Sep
2:03pm, 3 Sep 2024
22,964 posts
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rf_fozzy
*council tax is firmly broken. (oh for an edit button sometimes).
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