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COUNCIL TAX - Based on number of People?

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  • agrinnall
    agrinnall Posts: 23,344 Forumite
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    wiogs wrote: »
    Thankfully?

    Odd comment.

    I loved the community charge (aka poll tax) saved me a small fortune.

    Shame it went.

    Why do you think it's an odd comment? A significant proportion of the population of the UK would have been even more happy if it had happened much sooner.

    As it happens I would also prefer the community charge, but that's probably the case for most single person households.
  • Hasbeen
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    agrinnall wrote: »
    Why do you think it's an odd comment? A significant proportion(Minority) of the population of the UK would have been even more happy if it had happened much sooner.

    As it happens I would also prefer the community charge, but that's probably the case for most single person households.


    Sorry! corrected your mistake in post:)
    The world is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good. Napoleon
  • jjlandlord
    jjlandlord Posts: 5,099 Forumite
    It should be based, not on the number of residents, but on their total weight.
  • barak
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    agrinnall wrote: »
    If there are at least 2 non-exempt people in the household then the full amount of CT is due.....
    As it also is [generally] these days if there are no people living in the house. :(
    ".....where it is corrupt, purge it....."
  • jennifernil
    jennifernil Posts: 5,840 Forumite
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    Why not a local income tax? Would that not be fairer?

    It's people, not houses, that use local services.
  • lincroft1710
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    jennifernil wrote: »
    Why not a local income tax? Would that not be fairer?

    Why would it be fairer?
    If you are querying your Council Tax band would you please state whether you are in England, Scotland or Wales
  • Savvy_Sue
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  • System
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    lincroft1710 wrote: »

    Council Tax is not a payment for services it is a tax which goes towards funding local government expenditure.


    So is national taxation, but it is levelled on individuals, not a household.
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  • agrinnall
    agrinnall Posts: 23,344 Forumite
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    Hasbeen wrote: »
    Sorry! corrected your mistake in post:)

    That's not a correction, "significant proportion" was the phrase chosen deliberately because it does not exclude "minority".
  • wiogs
    wiogs Posts: 2,744 Forumite
    agrinnall wrote: »
    Why do you think it's an odd comment? A significant proportion of the population of the UK would have been even more happy if it had happened much sooner.

    As it happens I would also prefer the community charge, but that's probably the case for most single person households.

    What does the death of a politician have to do with the introduction, or otherwise, of a long gone tax?

    I wasn't in a single person household but saved a lot of money through the community charge.
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