Why do I have to pay 3 times as much council tax as some one who has the same amount of services as myself?

Question

We all have the same amount of services ie, Black, Blue, Brown and Green bins. We have the roads cleaned occaisionaly we have the rainwater gully's cleaned out if the council can remember to do it, but I do not get any more services than someone paying a lot less council tax than I do.

Answer 1

good question the answer the gov want to wring as mutch money out of us as they can take a look at your local councillors expences next time they publish them

Answer 2

I moved from a rather large house in East Devon. It had 2 large reception rooms, 4 double bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and 1/3 acre garden, [Band "D"] I moved into a small 3 bed-roomed Bungalow in neighbouring Mid Devon. [Band"D"] How the hell can you compere the two properties, the Council does. £1365 p/a. There must be another way. I"m sure there would have been a revolution in France if this was the situation over there.

Answer 3

A coal miner does a lot more work than a lawyer, so doesn't that mean they should be paid more? If you can afford to support more services you should, as I do. Though I do believe that the rubbish that does nothing for their lives but sign on once a fortnight, collect their money and run down the local drug dealer, spend it all and spend the next two weeks scabbing off the rest of us to buy food, cigarettes and more drugs should be locked away so we don't have to pay for them. That way the bill on us all would be a lot less.

Answer 4

Big house, small holding, lot of money, poor, fat cheese, thin rake. We are measured, graded, systematically colonised into groups that can be controlled by the upper elite echelons hidden from view.

The tax system in this country, or in any country with a history of social classification, is specifically designed to maintain a rigid pecking order of the kind that anthropologists have observed in the study of primitive tribes deep in the Amazon Rain Forest in Brazil or in the lives of Apes and Chimps. The tax system can be understood as a kind of sophisticated form of assertion of the strong over the weak, equivalent to the breast beating antics of an Ape exerting it's dominant position in an Apery where it can 'firm up' enough crumpet to satisfy its uncontrollable sexual appetite.

The doubtless farcical politics of fairness and equity your question raises is due entirely to a system we have inherited from ye olde feudal times, which has not been fundamentally reviewed since the dark ages.

A review is long overdue and there are many fresh revolutionary ideas in the melting pot that would resolve the kind of equaility issues your question probes. The problem is that the land-owning elite would be far worse off in a more equitable system of taxation and it is precisely the society from this powerbase, like a nation within a nation, that for centuries have resisted a new tax system.

A tax system used as a voting system, for example, would sweep away a lot of the old rearguard infrastructure currently embedded in Government and give greater power to a Parliament that in its current state is simply a tail being wagged by a few old dogs in Whitehall.

You will not find an answer to your question by looking at a solution from within the current system of taxation, whether it be through the council tax or VAT or Personal Tax. It is impossible to solve a problem by applying or tweaking principles and laws used by crooks and charlatans.

What your question suggests also is the possible Migration of people to the lower tax zone where the cost of living is cheaper - symptomatic of the spreading urban decay that bedevilled cities in the Victorian era. With a variation of charges, as you suggest '3 times as much', simply re-inforces the notion that the government is doing nothing at all about the status quo of a rigid class system where one area is better kept than another.

Within Birmingham in the UK, where I live, the difference between one area and its neighbour is absolutely startling. It's llike driving through the Emperor's estate, out the gates, and into his backyard where he keeps his pigs. Equality - bah. It's a fantasy cooked up by academics in their dream world of marshmellow mountains and candy floss clouds.

Answer 5

Its a wealth tax my friend.

The Government now punish you if you work hard and earn a good salary and live in decent house.

If you don't bother ur **** to get a decent job then you don't pay as much.

Wonder will this start a drain of people from the country to otter parts of Europe which are less heavily taxed? Then the Government won't get any revenue.

Answer 6

hi in the time of those months you'd be answerable for council tax yet as you haven't any income in the time of that element i might want to signify you probable will be exempt as you'd be classed as unemployed. i'm not positive on the guidelines as sone councils have replaced issues. have a glance on the internet website for the council, this is going to allow you to recognize also look on direct gov internet website as they are sturdy with wide-spread stuff like popular expenditures

Answer 7

If you get held to ransom in your house how many police will it take to surround it (i.e. smaller houses need less police). If your house goes on fire how many firemen/ladies will it take to put it out and how long will they take to do it? However I agree that the actual banding is wrong. For example I live in the middle of the sticks, house aint worth much but takes about 20 mins at full speed to get to it from nearest town. To serve me it must cost a hell of a lot more than it does to a house in town of the same value. What that means is that bigger and more expensive houses subsidise houses like mine.. why is that fair?

Answer 8

It depends on the band your property is in (based on values in 1990) and also they may come under a different council to you even if they live close by.

Answer 9

Council Tax isn't calculated on that!! Depends on the value of your house...which band it's in...B pay less than C and so forth. Also that other person may be getting a discount if they live on their own.....(single occupancy discount!).

Answer 10

Depends on the Band of your house. The more expensive and bigger your house, the more council tax you pay.

Answer 11

You are rich and or you dont live in a conservative run authority.
High Bills Non Conservative
Low Bills conservatice.
Not Rocket Science