{"id":83189,"date":"2018-03-20T13:01:31","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T06:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/scrap-highly-regressive-council-tax-says-thinktank\/"},"modified":"2018-03-20T14:03:46","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T07:03:46","slug":"scrap-highly-regressive-council-tax-says-thinktank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/scrap-highly-regressive-council-tax-says-thinktank\/","title":{"rendered":"Scrap 'highly regressive' council tax, says thinktank"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nResolution Foundation says levy now resembles much maligned poll tax and should be replaced with more progressive system Council tax is an outdated and regressive levy on households that should be scrapped in favour of a progressive levy on property, according to a report by the Resolution Foundation.The thinktank said council tax had become almost flat-rated in some areas to leave it resembling the much maligned poll tax of the early 1990s. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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