Council tax

[Brauny Blue]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7204745.stm#chart

Yet another inflation busting council tax rise for us all then. Year on year it increases way beyond the levels of inflation. When will they realize that you cant get blood out of a stone

 

[homer]

Pay your rates
Pay your water rates
Pay your rates
Pay your water rates

If your rates too high
Write a snotty letter
If your rates too high
Put your life on this bit of paper

 

[Biffa Bacon]

Ours actually went down last year because they reduced the band our house was rated at, the council also had to pay us around £900 back due to overpayments, even a 5% incresae won't put us back where we were.

 

[Nottingham Fox]

If my council tax goes up 4-4.5%, then it will be over £1000 a year for a band 'a' property.

 

[OldGit]

If my council tax goes up 4-4.5%, then it will be over £1000 a year for a band 'a' property.

For a band A????

My band D is already over £1300

Care to swap?

 

[four king power]

its still great value for money though, you get 3 bin bags picked up from your house a week, and some pretty brown and green bags to clutter up your kitchen with.

Some people are just never happy.

 

[Yorkshire Vixen]

this probably sounds like a daft question but ill ask it anyway what do we pay our council tax for..

 

[Matt_B]

this probably sounds like a daft question but ill ask it anyway what do we pay our council tax for..

Council provided services, such as bins, police, fire etc

 

[homer]

this probably sounds like a daft question but ill ask it anyway what do we pay our council tax for..

Because if you didn't, they'd send the bailiffs round

 

[Han]

Because if you didn't, they'd send the bailiffs round

you could be sent to prison too.

 

[Yorkshire Vixen]

oh dear i wouldnt want to be taken away in handcuffs just as well i pay mine

 

[Han]

oh dear i wouldnt want to be taken away in handcuffs just as well i pay mine

Not everyone can afford them....

 

[homer]

Not everyone can afford them....

Hence the creation of Council Tax Benefit......

 

[bocadillo]

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.



Change the things you can change - manage the things you can't change - but, most of all, FFS stop moaning about it!

 

[spionfox]

its still great value for money though, you get 3 bin bags picked up from your house a week, and some pretty brown and green bags to clutter up your kitchen with.

Some people are just never happy.

And some of us get a big green plastic box for bottles too :icon_razz

 

[Yorkshire Vixen]

lucky you!!!

 

[Han]

And some of us get a big green plastic box for bottles too :icon_razz

We get two green boxes, one green bin and a green bin with a black lid.

 

[Macky]

"Where's ya wheelie bin?"
"I wheelie have bin Hong Kong"

 

[Yorkshire Vixen]

rubbery

 

[homer]

"Where's ya wheelie bin?"
"I wheelie have bin Hong Kong"

Booooooooooooooooo.......