Quote Originally Posted by Returnofrros View Post
Local income tax also a biggee for me.

They took easy option and continue to take easy option.

They are inmho out of control as a political party now.

I've never wanted a party to get their cumuppence as much as this mob.
When I studied economics in the late 60's one of the topics was how to collect local taxes so that there was an element t of local accountability. Local rates for sales tax, this was before vat, and local income tax were 2 popular options. When we went through all the problems that both these alternative options created a tax based on where you lived was the most difficult to avoid and the simplest and cheapest to administer. There are problems with falling income in old age and the likelihood that the value of the property is high with high counc il tax rates but local sales taxes and local income tax seemed to provide so many ways to cheat or manipulate your taxes that what we have as a local property tax seems sensible.
Better to change the people in charge than change the basis of taxation IMO.