In article ,
Tim Streater wrote:
In article , Roland Perry
wrote:

In message , at 10:32:08 on Tue, 20 Jun
2017, "Dave Plowman (News)" remarked:

Make one or two of the two bed flats into a one bed flats, according
to some there is a real shortage of one bed flats to avoid the
bedroom tax.

Brilliant thinking. The purpose of the bedroom tax was to get people
out of accommodation larger than they need to release it for those
more deserving. Allegedly. Rather than just to tax the poor more.

It's not of course a "tax" at all, but a cap on the amount of housing
benefit that's paid, having looked at your needs and the accommodation
in question[1].

Perhaps Dave could explain in what way it's a tax. HMRC collects it, do
they?

Get Steptoe to explain it to you.

Or could it be you are suddenly interested in only using the official term
for something?

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