I parlamentari laburisti chiedono a Rachel Reeves di eliminare le tasse comunali
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/oct/14/labour-mps-call-on-rachel-reeves-to-scrap-council-tax
di GeoWa
I parlamentari laburisti chiedono a Rachel Reeves di eliminare le tasse comunali
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/oct/14/labour-mps-call-on-rachel-reeves-to-scrap-council-tax
di GeoWa
11 commenti
Do they want to get rid of NI, income tax and VAT as well?
An absolute fair argument. Council tax right now is so unfair. Its scary no govt has addressed it all these years. Hopefully Reeves makes the move.
The main reason I don’t think this’ll happen is that we don’t get nice things.
I’ve voted every year since 2010, and I can’t once remember thinking “hell yeah, the government did a good thing that will make my life better”.
Council tax is a weird one because places with higher costs of living tend to pay less I.e London because of other income from things like business rates and tourism.
Whereas, if you’re out in the sticks, you’re basically paying more for less because the council’s revenue is skewed towards council tax.
Watch her introduce a property tax on rich people’s homes, which gaggles of Redditors have been clamouring for for ages, only for the reception here to be overwhelmingly negative anyway because everyone has been successfully programmed to oppose literally anything Labour do
Headline is a straight up lie. The verb they should use is “replace”, not scrap.
Fair enough, I don’t see how the value of your house in any way relates to the amount you should pay for local services.
They absolutely should do this, it’s both the right thing to do and makes sense politically. It should benefit red wall voter types that they are desperately trying to win back.
I feel like all an increase in tax based on house price will do is empty the actual south east, I certainly couldn’t afford a rise in council and i doubt many other people who provide the services to the richer inhabitants could either, I already pay double my mortgage than I did up north.
I moved here to be closer to my family so my kids had atleast one set of grand parents and childcare that isnt extortionate. If my council tax doubled too, and my income tax, energy and water all go up that’ll be it I will be done and probably move back in with mum and dad which my wife would love…. and they won’t get any tax from me.
And replace it with what ? Cant scrap it without giving an alternate model.
I don’t get why Londoners have to pay more? It is not that we are super happy that everything here is so expensive and houses are very much out of reach. I’m happy that I have a house, but honestly it’s super small, with a garden size of a stamp, why should I pay for this more than some guy who happily lives in a mansion somewhere in around Leeds?
I actually think it should be the opposite, considering how expensive everything here is, the income tax bands should be changed for London.