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Tim Streater wrote:
In article , Dave Plowman (News)
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In article ,
Tim Streater wrote:
In article , Roland Perry
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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?

because the unofficial term is being used deliberately to make
something appear harder than it is. For political reasons only, IOW.

Take it up with the popular press, then. And think of a nice easy Short
name which describes it better. I'll give you a clue, though. Steptoe is
taken.

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