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An Act to provide for certain local authorities to levy and collect a new tax, to be called council tax; to abolish community charges; to make further provision with respect to local government finance (including provision with respect to certain grants by local authorities); and for connected purposes. Citation: 1992 c. 14: Introduced by ...
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.
Criticism has been levied not so much at the principle of the tax but at its debt collection arrangements: [3] Community Charge and Council Tax debts can be pursued up to 40 years later [a] – few people will have conserved their payment receipts for such a long time and as such are unable to prove that they paid. Under Scottish Law, it is the ...
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However, during the 17th century, Parliament permitted a Land Tax to be collected from 1667, a Hearth tax from 1691 to 1695 and a Poll tax from 1693 to 1699. [ 3 ] The 1707 Union of the Kingdom of Scotland with the Kingdom of England formed a new Kingdom of Great Britain , so that responsibility for taxation in Scotland became a matter for the ...
The council's full legal name is the "Mayor and Burgesses of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames", although it styles itself Kingston Council. [ 12 ] [ 2 ] The council counts its mayors as forming a continuous series with the mayors of the old municipal borough of Kingston-upon-Thames as first appointed in 1836.
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The Institute was the first UK tax body to join the Confédération Fiscale Européenne (CFE). The 500 members of the Institute of Indirect Taxation (IIT) became members of the CIOT in August 2012 [ 2 ] following the memberships of both bodies approving the merger of the two bodies at separate meetings in May 2012.