Petition on parliament website

1socrates1

I see that there is a petition on the parliament website for the council tax discount for single occupancy to go from 25% to 50%. 

sevenhills

The thing is, most other households have 3/4/5 occupants.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/643595

DullGreyGuy

1socrates1 said:

I see that there is a petition on the parliament website for the council tax discount for single occupancy to go from 25% to 50%. 

It's been done before, last two times it didn't get the threshold of signatures to even get a response let alone for it to be debated. This one will at least get a response but probably be like the others, that tax is a necessary evil and councils have funds to cover up to 100% of council tax for those who cannot afford it. 

There have been over 350 petitions on council tax, only the ones that were allowed to run, and only 6 have had over 10,000 signatures required for a response

lincroft1710

With so many councils having severe financial problems, the last thing Parliament is likely to do is to reduce some of their income stream 

subjecttocontract

Worse still if single occupancy is reduced the rest of us will need to pay more to make up the shortfall......so, no way am I signing.