Quote Originally Posted by 9goals2hattricks3pen View Post
Council Tax billing is so badly handled costing hard pressed councils £millions.

Its administered not by your local council but by a national body up north. When you add value to your home with extra bedrooms etc surely it would be reasonable to expect to pay more CT if the value has greatly increased?

The rules state the Band should increase if major work has been done when the house is sold but this doesn't happen in so many cases.

The last house I extended was in 2010. I bought it in 2010 for £298,000. It was a 2 bed-semi in Band C. I added 2 beds, an en-suite, study,utility and created a kitchen diner. Sold it 9 months later for £485,000. I reckon that pushed it 2 bands or £600pa. 11 years later it's still Band C.

If I look at the Bands in that 1 street of nearly 100 house I reckon half of them are banded too low . That's around £25,000 per year Mid Suss ex DC could claim just from one street. Multiply that up and how much extra could they spend or how much less they could charge others.

I agee. My point though is ( take Kensington and Chelsea ) a very affluent area:

Band A is £825 per year and Band H ( £2475 ) per year for 20/21

So Band A is most likely a 1 bedroom bedsit and Band H can be a huge property worth 20 million ( David Beckham lives there )

So how the f uck can a person killing themselves in Band A pay a THIRD LESS than a very wealthy person like Beckham etc in Band H. It's absolutely shocking!!! Taxes should be a percentage of an individual persons earnings whether it be 4% on £20,000 or 4% on £500,000. To me that would be fair.

Same scenario with speeding fines i.e 0.5% fine on a person who is earning £20,000 and the same 0.5% on someone earning £500,000. Each individual therefore is hit in the pocket the same!!!

So the rich get richer ( and laugh ) and the poor get poorer!!! So those who said those NHS workers should not get more than 1% pay rise - how would you feel then if your council tax had consistently increased by 3.9%? Very very bitter - I would suspect