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Council Tax is a local taxation system used in England, Scotland and Wales. It is a tax on domestic property, which was introduced in 1993 by the Local Government Finance Act 1992, replacing the short-lived Community Charge (also known as "poll tax"), which in turn replaced the domestic rates.
Some 1,300 council staff, who were previously based in four separate locations in the borough, [10] moved into the new Bexley Civic Offices in May 2014. [ 3 ] [ 11 ] It was officially opened by the Mayor of London , Boris Johnson , in October 2014.
The new council formally came into its powers on 1 April 1965, at which point the old districts and their councils were abolished. [9] The council's full legal name is "The Mayor and Burgesses of the London Borough of Bexley". [10] Prior to 2007 the council branded itself "Bexley Council", which name is still commonly used for it. [11] [12]
However, since 2022, Elizabeth line services have started to utilise a terminus at Abbey Wood, the entrance to which is in Bexley (due to the borough boundary passing through the site, the station's platforms sit within the Royal Borough of Greenwich). There are various proposals to extend either the DLR or London Overground to Thamesmead.
The bedroom tax is a United Kingdom welfare policy whereby tenants living in public housing (also called council or social housing) with rooms deemed "spare" experience a reduction in Housing Benefit, resulting in them being obliged to fund this reduction from their incomes, move home, or face rent arrears and potential eviction by their landlord (be that the local authority or a housing ...
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.
Where the property owner does not pay tax by the due date, the taxing authority may assess penalties and interest. [60] The amount, timing, and procedures vary widely. Generally, the penalty and interest are enforceable in the same manner as the tax, and attach to the property.
The parish of Bexley adopted the Local Government Act 1858 in 1880, and a local board of 15 members was formed to govern the area. [3] The local board established offices at Oxford Place, High Street, Bexley. [4] The Local Government Act 1894 reconstituted the local board's area as an urban district. [5] Bexley Urban District Council replaced ...