On 27/03/2013 01:08, bm wrote:

Our local council has come up with a winner - council tax - if you own an
empty house you used to get a rebate of 50%. Not any more, if your house is
now empty for 2 years you now pay 150% council tax. So, you own the house,
it has f-all to do with the council (IMO), you are using far less services,
bin collections etc but it costs you 150% ? C'mon. I'm wondering which way
to go on this, it can't be legal, shirley?



The discount is up to the council.
Increasing it to 150% probably requires a legal fight.