On 3/28/2013 6:56 AM, Tim Streater wrote:
"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote:
bert ] wrote:
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.

I've never seen such a breakdown.

Really? South Cambs and also Canterbury used to provide a leaflet with
the annual COuncil Tax notice detailing what was spent where. I think
they've scrapped the paper copy now but the info will be on their
website. Try looking on yours.

Highland Council also provide this information - "Net Revenue
Expenditure Allocated by Service" (on page 4 of the Council Tax Booklet).