In message , "Dave Plowman (News)"
writes
In article om,
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?

I don't have kids, don't use the fire service or police or really any
council services other than bin collection, but still pay full council
tax. This can't be legal, can it?

Council tax is just an idle way of arbitrarily collecting taxes to fund
local services. The expenditure on those services is largely property
independent if you look at the breakdown provided by your council round
this time of year.
Leaving a house empty - other than for a short while when moving etc - is
a very anti-social act.

Real socialist thinking that one. It's my house, bought and paid for.
--
bert