[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by smudgie

Good for her.

Mansion tax my backside...some of those So called mansions are family homes that have been lived in for years.
It doesn't stop at the 2 million mark either, if Ed Balls has his way it would be anything over £400 grand in parts of the North East.

As to the bedroom tax, if you rented privately you have had to pay for extra bedrooms out of your own pocket for years.

Not quite...depends on what the rent is for the property. Technically now I could rent a 4 bed house around here privately with the LHA allowance. But In my 3 bed I am deemed to have too many rooms (despite one room being too small to fit anything except literally one child sized bed in)

People tend to say people who rent privately have had it for years, but thats not the case at all. If I could find a private property with 8 bedrooms the housing benefit would pay for it in full aslong as it was below a certain amount. As it doesnt actually go by rooms...it goes by average rent prices


That said I disagree with the mansion tax as its not fair. People may have a low income but a property left to them in a will..and would have to fork out money they dont have. Just because people have a big house doesn't mean they are loaded. I would rather see an extra tax on luxuries such as ridiculously priced sports cars and stuff like that, which would ensure that only those with ****loads of money who waste it are hit, rather than your average person who got left property by their grandparents or something.

Or maybe forget extra taxes, and just ****ing do something about all these companies/millionaires avoiding tax that they should be paying to begin with...

[smudgie]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

Not quite...depends on what the rent is for the property. Technically now I could rent a 4 bed house around here privately with the LHA allowance. But In my 3 bed I am deemed to have too many rooms (despite one room being too small to fit anything except literally one child sized bed in)

People tend to say people who rent privately have had it for years, but thats not the case at all. If I could find a private property with 8 bedrooms the housing benefit would pay for it in full aslong as it was below a certain amount. As it doesnt actually go by rooms...it goes by average rent prices


That said I disagree with the mansion tax as its not fair. People may have a low income but a property left to them in a will..and would have to fork out money they dont have. Just because people have a big house doesn't mean they are loaded. I would rather see an extra tax on luxuries such as ridiculously priced sports cars and stuff like that, which would ensure that only those with ****loads of money who waste it are hit, rather than your average person who got left property by their grandparents or something.

Or maybe forget extra taxes, and just ****ing do something about all these companies/millionaires avoiding tax that they should be paying to begin with...

It would be great if they sorted Out all the loopholes that allow those companies dodging the tax bill.
Yes, it does depend on a limit to be paid for how many bedrooms deemed needed. If you can find a cheaper house than the limit then the amount of bedrooms does not matter.
I think in some areas down South especially, people will find it difficult to find much of anything within the limits.