Council Tax

Chanes

zebulon wrote: »

Band F, 2 bedroom flat. £2578.53 (inc. water & sew)
+12%

This is in Scotland, isn't it? Crikey, I thought we'd been had over a bit until I saw some of the other places.

zebulon

Chanes wrote: »

This is in Scotland, isn't it? Crikey, I thought we'd been had over a bit until I saw some of the other places.

Aye!
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glasgowdan

So why has Scotland been hammered so hard above band D? And what's Jimmy Krankie, I mean Nicola Sturgeon, going to do about it?

Silvertabby

Band E £1980. Plus £35 for green waste.

Torry_Quine

The reason that it's only a 25% reduction for a single person is because 50% of the bill is for the property and 50% for the people.

GaleSF63

boliston wrote: »

generally single people choose smaller properties such a studio, 1 bed or 2 bed properties which would mainly be band A or B.

2 bedroom flat, Band E, £1594, exc water etc which will add another £526. Argyll and Bute council. (That's without single person discount).

jennifernil

glasgowdan wrote: »

So why has Scotland been hammered so hard above band D? And what's Jimmy Krankie, I mean Nicola Sturgeon, going to do about it?

The extra increases for bands E,F,G and H were put inplace by the Scottish Parliament itself, not the councils.

Our council increase is about £90, the extra on top of that, as dictated by the parliament, is £512.

Our water and waste is over £800.

The total increase for CT and water/waste is over 20%.

jennifernil

boliston wrote: »

My main concern is the huge level of under occupation of a very finite resource.

The worst example is the speculative investor who will buy expensive property and keep it empty with the capital gain as their only interest, but there is also a lot of property that is hugely under occupied, such as pensioners who own huge properties when many families are crammed into tiny properties and many cannot even afford a home at all.

People should still have the option to under-occupy to their hearts content but the tax they pay should reflect the cost to society of their choice.

So pensioners should be forced to leave the home they have paid for? Or taxed out of it?

How do you reckon these families are going to be able to afford to buy these larger houses?

Exactly what cost to society do you believe is involved in people remaining in their own home?

moneyistooshorttomention

sparky130a wrote: »

How they raise it is one thing...

It's how they then waste it that bothers most people.

That was the one I was ruefully grinning about - since I moved to where everything is published in two languages (though we all speak the first one)......:cool:. I've never yet seen any figures as to what the extra cost is for the other language too.

It's a matter of debate which I find most annoying out of that waste of money on the one hand or being charged 75% of the CT bill (rather than the 50% each that someone in a couple would pay) on the other hand.

Mr.Generous

boliston wrote: »

My main concern is the huge level of under occupation of a very finite resource.

The worst example is the speculative investor who will buy expensive property and keep it empty with the capital gain as their only interest, but there is also a lot of property that is hugely under occupied, such as pensioners who own huge properties when many families are crammed into tiny properties and many cannot even afford a home at all.

People should still have the option to under-occupy to their hearts content but the tax they pay should reflect the cost to society of their choice.

Speculators who buy and leave them empty probably aren't too big a burden on council services, they can get hit with the empty property +50% surcharge too*, so are paying 150% council tax for almost no services. They should rent it to 1 single person, get the 25% discount and a few £ rent. The profits in London and the fact that they are mega wealthy to start with means they are not bothered.

*From 1 April 2013, billing authorities may charge a premium on a class of property that has been unoccupied and unfurnished for 2 years or more. The premium can be up to 50% of the Council Tax on the property