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Originally Posted by Chris

I’m curious as to why you think you’re entitled not to pay towards the services provided by the council in the area where your house is located.

Note that excuses like ‘we don’t send our kids to school/use social services/libraries’ do not apply. The whole point of socialised services is we all pay for all of them regardless of need so we all have them when we need them regardless of means.

The long-settled democratic view in the UK is that we pay for local services via a charge related to property value. Second home exemptions are an anomaly whose time is long overdue.

Your rather cold-hearted approach to this situation is crueller than I’d have held you for.

The doubling of Council Tax is a disgusting raid on people’s in heritances because they failed to properly stimulate the housebuilding industry.

Your socialised services point is correct; we pay for those through the 100% Council Tax that we contribute without drawing on any of them except the very occasional bin collection.

I’m not asking for a second home exemption; the new tax should have had more flexibility to allow for the situation we face. As it stands, it is as cold hearted as you seem to be and an evidence of government failure to build more homes.




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Originally Posted by mrmistoffelees

Can afford it ? Then pay it and hush

Can’t afford it ? Sell it and then perhaps see if there’s a ‘home bank’ in the area

You’re in a truly privileged position, stop complaining

Nasty.