"Tony Bryer" wrote in message
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On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 04:39:51 -0700 (PDT) Jgharston wrote :
Here in the UK the populous threaten revolution at the very
hint of a mention of the suggestion of a revaluation after
20 years.

Yet a tax based on what your house would have been worth in 1991
(even if it wasn't built then) sounds like something out of the
Monster Raving Loony Party's manifesto. It seems lost on the
average Mail reader that *on average* a revaluation will not
affect anyone's council tax, subject to the revaluation not
being used as an excuse to increase spending.

But that is exactly what the councils did when the poll tax was introduced
and blamed the increase on the poll tax.