Council Tax - whats yours and do you think it a good system?

lady_wolfs_head

Band B £1246.60

My neighbour (semi attached to our house) Band C!!!

drc

mitchaa wrote: »

Aberdeenshire Band F....£2,216.60pa

http://www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/counciltax/charges.asp

Includes Water & Sewerage though which I guess for you folks down south your council tax does not?

We have had ours frozen for the last few years :j

No, water not included. We pay £300+ per year for Thames Water (unmetered). Seems like another freebie for you lucky Scots.

Spirit_2

lady_wolfs_head wrote: »

Band B £1246.60

My neighbour (semi attached to our house) Band C!!!

Our band F is a semi and attached to much bigger, but band D neighbour!!!

Sewerage......nope....not in the charge and we pay circa £165 two or three times a year for it to taken away.

Welsh_Totster

Band D here and just had this years CT bill through and its £953.94 for the year for a 4 bed semi.

I remember the poll tax, I was 18 when it got brought in so had to pay it too. I lived at home then and I remember collectively we paid less as a family under the poll tax system than we did with the old rates system. Doesnt mean it was right or fairer though.

I think that what we have now in the CT is ok, if I chose to live in a 4 bed house and theres just me and the husband then thats up to us, we pay the CT for it as its our choice not to live in a 2 bed with a lower banding. No matter what system is in place it wont please everyone, so I dont know what the answer is!

zappahey

RobertoMoir wrote: »

This is a legal requirement that's come down from Europe

Do you have a reference for this?

nearlyrich

We are Band D too, ours is just under £2000 and we have to pay about £600 in water rates here.

abaxas

What hacks me off is that different areas in the same council can have different services.

We pay the same council tax but we dont get the 'garden waste' service.

How can this be!

ukcarper

We are Band E and ours is £1854 Water Rates about £360

Having paid both I can't see much difference between Rates and council tax. The problem with council tax was it was the same no matter how much you earned and the riots were mainly because people who didn’t pay anything suddenly had to. In my opinion local income tax would be the fairest but people would complain about that.

torontoboy45

molerat wrote: »

The rioting was because the chav stay in bed until sign on day element had to pay for something other than fags and booze.

My final poll tax bill was £353 for the two of us. My first council tax bill was £585.

Currently Band E £1387, same as 2007

The worst increase was 1995 £621, 1996 £742 due to a LA reshuffle :eek:

my last 'rates bill' was for £233. my first poll tax bill was £698 (before transitional relief). no wonder people rioted.

over here band c stands at just under £1300.

beecher2

drc wrote: »

No, water not included. We pay £300+ per year for Thames Water (unmetered). Seems like another freebie for you lucky Scots.

No our sewerage and water rates are added onto our council tax and we pay them to our local council as Scottish Water is not privatised.

As for the poll tax, what's fair about someone who lives in a mansion paying the same as someone who lives in a 1 bed flat? Not that council tax is fair - we should have local income tax.