The 2015 Popularity Contest (aka UK General Election )

[peteblue]

Most people living in those houses will earn enough to be paying the £250 a month easily. They said it will raise 1.2bn.

Unless you are retired......

 

[Seanjd]

Unless you are retired......

Then you don't pay it until it's sold/if it's sold.

 

[Joey66]

There's a lot wrong with the council tax, and I think more banding might be a good idea, but a posh studio flat in London is probably worth more than a four or five bed place with an acre of land in quite a few parts of the country.

That's a good point , but we live in regions so the bands of higher property should carry on from band G - The rich have been laughing all the way with a band that never goes up so in theory the mansion tax may just mean a group,of higher council tax bands no problem in my eyes!

 

[roydo]

Then you don't pay it until it's sold/if it's sold.

What if it isnt worth £2m when it is sold?

 

[peteblue]

The council tax bands need moving to a higher plane for houses over 1 5 million - to the maximum height its rediculous that a posh studio flat in London pays the same council tax of a mansion with an acre of land!

Why ? The acre of land doesn't get supported by council services and that is what council tax is supposed to be about. Personally I think all houses of whatever size/value should pay the same council tax........

 

[Seanjd]

What if it isnt worth £2m when it is sold?

I'm not sure about those details, like how they would value a £2m house.

 

[roydo]

I'm not sure about those details, like how they would value a £2m house.

Quite.

 

[peteblue]

Then you don't pay it until it's sold/if it's sold.

I'm expecting Ed 'n' Balls to reintroduce the progressive window tax.......

 

[peteblue]

What if it isnt worth £2m when it is sold?

I will put good money on Ed Mili selling his house to a relative for £1.99 M........

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Given the dire nature of the posturing so far, I'm surprised the Tories didn't make more of Ed Balls' brother being a very wealthy head of Pimco, one of the most active hedge funds dealing in government bonds. Not that it matters in the slightest of course. Maybe it's good that they haven't resorted to that, their attacks on Milliband have been bad enough.

 

[roydo]

I will put good money on Ed Mili selling his house to a relative for £1.99 M........

Haha! That before or after that Deed of Variance kicks in I wonder.

 

[Joey66]

Why ? The acre of land doesn't get supported by council services and that is what council tax is supposed to be about. Personally I think all houses of whatever size/value should pay the same council tax........

Talking about the acre including swimming pools etc, the council tax bands at this level do need revising upwards!
It's an old system that the really rich have been getting away with for ages!

 

[Clint Planet]

Bedroom tax is a disgrace and has driven a large number of poor people out of their homes they've been in for decades.

Not only that, benefit capping has displaced lots of already vulnerable people such as refugees who, no longer able to afford living in their own London communities, are dispersed amongst potentially hostile provincial towns which are simply not geared up to support them in their needs.

 

[Clint Planet]

Well I read the Telegraph, and am far from being rich mate.

Ace crossword and sport mainly though.

It's become a joke of a paper since its new owners got into bed with HSBC, though. Sad, really.

 

[Bruce Wayne]