Tony Bryer wrote:
On Sun, 14 Oct 2012 19:35:00 +0100 Hugh wrote :
Revaluation on a regular basis would simply hike the tax regardless of
the occupants income. Those on fixed income would suffer most. The
only time value relates to income is when you buy the house in the
first place. So the logical thing to do would be to revalue on sale.

Revaluations in themselves don't change the amount of tax paid. Assume a
mythical authority that spends £1m and has 1,000 houses each valued for
rates purposes at £100K each. Total value of property = £100m so rates
are at 1p in pound, 100,000 x 0.01 = £1000 per property. Revalue to
£125K, poundage is now 0.8p, £125,000 x 0.008 = £1000.

It seems you're not familiar with the mindset of British Local Government.

What would happen here is that the rate per pound of value would remain
the same, and the council would have more money to waste on new offices
and toys for their executives, and possibly more enforcement officers to
make sure the higher tax would be collected.

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Tciao for Now!

John.