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Added some of that in. Probably needs fleshing out more, particularly the pro-council-tax argument (I'm sure the government have made some statements in defense of it!) 136.2.1.101 11:48, 24 March 2006 (UTC) -- There should be some discussion on council tax benefit which is a complicated system.
Council Tax Benefit was a means-tested rebate that potentially rebated 100% of a claimant's Council Tax bill. The rebate would be reduced by a fifth of any qualifying income above a certain level; benefits did not qualify for this calculation, but most other income did. In effect, Council Tax Benefit was a rebate for people with low incomes.
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A leaflet explaining the Community Charge (the so-called "poll tax"), Department of the Environment, April 1989. The Community Charge, commonly known as the poll tax, was a system of local taxation introduced by Margaret Thatcher's government whereby each taxpayer was taxed the same fixed sum (a "poll tax" or "head tax"), with the precise amount being set by each local authority.
The Council Tax (New Valuation Lists for England) Act 2006 (c 7) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.One of its purposes was to postpone the compilation, in relation to billing authorities in England, of new valuation lists for the purposes of council tax until after the Lyons Inquiry had produced its final report, in order to allow that report to be taken into consideration when ...
In the financial year 2019/20, local authorities received 22% of their funding from grants, 52% from council tax and 27% from retained business rates. [61] In the financial year 2023/24, 51% of revenue expenditure is expected to come from UK Government grants, 31% from council tax and 15% from retained business rates. [27]
Exceptions are listed in Schedule 1 Part 1 of the Local Government (Rating) Act 2002. [9] Territorial authorities may assess property values in three different ways – on the basis of land, annual or capital value – using valuations prepared in accordance with the Rating Valuations Act 1998. The valuation process is overseen by the Valuer ...