----- Original Message ----- From: "dave hearnden" <[email protected]> To: "canals list" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 25, 2009 12:38 PM Subject: RE: [canals-list] Poll Tax (not)
> > Everyone keep saying how fair the old Rates were (a Property based tax) > were as Poll tax was a person tax. But what a lot of people never realised > was, the old rates system was updated every ten years, ad everytime it ad > been updated people complained about how much it had gone up. Sorry - not true > > > > So really the difference would have been smaller between The old rates > system and Poll Tax. I don't understand your logic there. Can you explain? > > > > What has already been mention is the Council Tax is a person tax (limited > but still a person tax) with a property tax. Council Tax is a banded property tax - it is only a personal tax if only one person lives in the property. Can you explain your sentence above? I cannot understand the double meaning. > > > > And again it is due to be up dated, all the properties that was banded say > as band D, now hand improvements ie extra room, loft conversion , > and then was sold the new owners can expect a band increase. The Council Tax review in England has been cancelled. I don't think hand improvements naturally lead to a band increase. Phil
