[arista]

5% Rise in your Council Tax
is Nasty.


So could be £100 upwards increase in April 2025
The £150, is a Average price increase


So for some of you
save up extra cash to help pay for it



Being debated on Radio and TV
all today.

One Old Fella in Somerset (Phoned Ch5HD AM Live)
said his Chalet Bungalow
is paying over £2000K for a Council Tax
he does not have the funding

[Cherie]

They are not raising taxes though for ordinary working people

what they should have said is they wont raise taxes for people who have never worked lol

[user104658]

I wouldn't particularly mind CT being increased if it meant local councils were actually investing in the local area, making improvements, tidying up and modernising towns... collecting bins more regularly... improving schools... etc.

Currently, there are some brilliant modern city centres, BUT cities are dumps once you wander a little off the beaten track (or the tourist track depending on the city).

Mid-sized towns are by and large repulsive. Smaller towns and villages are a mixed bag and effectively it depends on how engaged the local community is; when most of the population is better-off and community-minded they can be nice, otherwise... dismal.

So yes if they want to up my council tax and it's to pay to live in a nicer area, go for it.

Sadly... I fully expect that the price will go up but there will be little if any observable improvement to go with it. And that's when it stings.

[bots]

it's rising by what, about 5 times the current inflation rate? That doesn't seem like a fair increase to me.

It's something like 4 months since labour took over and does anyone now have a good thing to say for them? I'm not seeing a lot of "well done" and positive vibes anywhere

[Zizu]

Come back Boris !!


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[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Zizu

Come back Boris !!


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No thank you

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Quantum Boy

I wouldn't particularly mind CT being increased if it meant local councils were actually investing in the local area, making improvements, tidying up and modernising towns... collecting bins more regularly... improving schools... etc.

Currently, there are some brilliant modern city centres, BUT cities are dumps once you wander a little off the beaten track (or the tourist track depending on the city).

Mid-sized towns are by and large repulsive. Smaller towns and villages are a mixed bag and effectively it depends on how engaged the local community is; when most of the population is better-off and community-minded they can be nice, otherwise... dismal.

So yes if they want to up my council tax and it's to pay to live in a nicer area, go for it.

Sadly... I fully expect that the price will go up but there will be little if any observable improvement to go with it. And that's when it stings.

They stuck a 6% precept for social care on it about 5 years ago and there is no improvement at all in social care, I dont think most people would mind their CT go up if they could see improvements but things either stay the same or go down hill, also this is yet another stealth tax on working people, the NI increase to employers will be passed on either by higher prices in the shops or lower wage increases for workers, similar with the increase in the NLW, the freeze on tax free allowance will also tip more people into paying tax, I wouldn't mind if they straight out said sorry your taxes will have to rise, but to blather on about not taxing hard working people is just gaslighting and thinking the populus is stupid

[user104658]

Originally Posted by bots

It's something like 4 months since labour took over and does anyone now have a good thing to say for them? I'm not seeing a lot of "well done" and positive vibes anywhere

It really says a lot that this was truly Labour's chance to "take back Scotland" with the SNP absolutely collapsing, and at the point of the GE it looked all but sure that at the next Holyrood election we'd be seeing a Labour-led Scottish govt...

They've been such a let down that less than 6 months later, it's already looking like SNP will remain the largest party in Scotland at the next Holyrood election. Despite all of their issues and what looked like truly being the nail in the coffin... almost straight away Labour has alienated people so much that a massive number have switched back to "the devil they know" in voting intention.

I have to wonder if the same will be true of the Tories in the North of England.

[arista]