Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:How the cut in Council tax gets paid for | |
Posted by: | Ellen Kearney | |
Date/Time: | 10/03/09 08:47:00 |
Andrew, you are seeing this totally from your own perspective and making a false comparison. The people who are really hurt by successive Council Tax rises are the 'hard-working families'. This may have become a cliche but they do actually exist. Council Tax already takes a disproportionate part of their disposable income. It has risen massively over the last decade and the 'it's only a Mars bar a week' has been used to justify the rise every time. My guess is that it already takes up about 15% of the money I have left after other taxes and NI contributions and housing costs. As a tax it has risen to far and with most people in the borough seeing reduced income many more are in a position where the proportion of income they pay in tax is too high. Further reductions are needed. I would agree that upping meals on wheels prices is not the way to reduce tax and that there must remain a lot of fat to trim elsewhere in the Council budget but consistently increasing the tax burden hurts a lot more people on lower incomes than the meals on wheels price increase. |