{"id":81748,"date":"2018-03-03T14:00:11","date_gmt":"2018-03-03T07:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/council-tax-should-be-fair-and-progressive-ours-is-neither\/"},"modified":"2018-03-03T14:04:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T07:04:07","slug":"council-tax-should-be-fair-and-progressive-ours-is-neither","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/council-tax-should-be-fair-and-progressive-ours-is-neither\/","title":{"rendered":"Council tax should be fair and progressive. Ours is neither"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nIt is outrageous that a person in a \u00a317m Westminster mansion pays less than a pensioner in a Nottingham bungalowThere is a Grade II-listed seven-bedroom home of \u201cambassadorial proportions\u201d for sale in Westminster, just along from the old Conservative party headquarters, if you\u2019ve got the odd \u00a317m to spare. But there is one financial worry the buyer won\u2019t have: council tax. The new owner will be presented with a council tax bill for 2017-18 of just \u00a31,376. We know this because that is the maximum council tax bill anyone in Westminster paysfor a top-tier, band H property.Meanwhile, a pensioner in Nottingham living in a small bungalow worth about \u00a3150,000 is likely to be in the council\u2019s C band and facing a tax bill of \u00a31,645. Why are millionaires in London paying hundreds of pounds less in annual property taxes than someone struggling on a small pension in Nottingham? Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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