Council Tax Has Gone Up by 70pc Admits PremierByline: STEVE DOUGHTYDaily Mail (London)
I have just received my new council tax bill. I am a single parent with two children who live at home. I receive a 25% discount for being the only adult and my bill has now gone up £23 per month more than last year. Merton speaks about all the services it provides yet it has...
Peter Oakford, the Conservative Deputy Leader of Kent County Council, said it was "horrible" to have to keep putting council tax up. "I'm a resident of Kent... it impacts everybody, we've done it year on year, council tax has gone through the roof", he said. ...
The Council due to not being able to budget or invest has gone broke and is making its residents foot the bill by charging much more in Council Tax but then greatly reducing general bin collections to once fortnightly which will make Thurrock a cess pit but also charging £80 to collect ...
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"I'm comfortable with it this year, but I hope we continue aggressively putting on recruitment classes and getting the police department up to what it should be–900 officers," Councilman Coghill said. While some revenues like the jock tax remain in court battles, t...
Eddie Lin (EL):That situation is never easy, but we have gone through this before. In general, I do think it’s not great to just take an all-cuts kind of austerity approach. I do think there’s some revenue we can raise. I am supportive of a local capital gains tax, and I’m...
This has now rocketed to over [pounds sterling]21billion.In some areas, such as the City of London, bills have gone up by 131 per cent.This year council tax averages [pounds sterling]1,175 for a typical band D property, compared to just [pounds sterling]688 when Tony Blair swept to...
are becoming slower. A Fire Levy was proposed for this fall election, but the City decided to not put it on the ballot based on the current climate of property tax increases and the fact that people would be asked to vote on a levy when they had not yet seen their property tax bills...
£650 of public money he used to pay his brother Huw to lay flooring at one of his London properties in 2006, £375 of incidental expenses for office costs towards a wifi laptop bought from ebay and a whopping £769 to have his yearly tax returns done. Regular claims were also made...