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Poll: Council Tax as a proportion of income
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5% for us
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Thanks all for your responses. I wonder whether this has changed over the years. My guess is that on average people are paying a larger proportion of their income in CT then they were 10 years ago - in other words, CT has risen faster than incomes.0
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1.5%
I don't think you can break it down against how much you earn, otherwise where is the incentive to work, I might as well sit at home all day watching re-runs of jeremy kyle and claiming benefits?
Last year I paid more in charitable donations that I did in council tax.Remember the time he ate my goldfish? And you lied and said I never had goldfish. Then why did I have the bowl Bart? Why did I have the bowl?0 -
Smack on 4%. Tax Band B
PsiNear a tree by a river, there's a hole in the ground.
Where an old man of Aran goes around and around....0 -
about 9% here, but we recently both got new jobs. Used to be about 12%...:)0
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Am currently working - earning about £24000 pa with council tax bill of £973, so that's 4%. But am retiring later in the year and the new percentage will be 8.5% of pre-tax income.
The thing is that with other things you have a choice about, for example, using less heating, buying cheaper food, etc, but with Council Tax the only thing you can do is move - which I have been wanting to do for some time.
Jen
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4.41% here.... band C'We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars' - Oscar Wilde0
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