UK council tax
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- lowimpakt
can fuck off
if i live in a house that is converted to flats do all residents have to pay the same rate of tax? meaning that the combined tax take from that one property would be 3 to 4 times what it would if there was a family living in the whole house?????
- jamble0
I wouldn't have thought so, if it's converted into totally seperate flats surely you'd only be paying a smaller share.
The easiest bet would be to call the council and find out.
All things told though, council tax should fuck right off. It's a massive amount of money for very little.
- UndoUndo0
I have the privilege in leaving in a group of aprtments where we all pay the same council tax rate as houses which includes the empting of our bins, but as we are apartments we have to have a huge bin which means we have to pay a seperate fee to get it emptied and are not reimbursed on the fucking wheelie bins we dont have
- total scam
- Engage0
taxed on what you earn
taxed on what you spend
and what you've got left, you pay other taxes with.
- digilee0
the tax you pay depends on:
worth of property divide by the amount of people resident there.
basically, if your bird moves in, don't tell the council.
- rasko40
yes you do, your banding is based on the value of the property.
its a ripoff.
- chossy0
lets not forget the tax on your savings aswell engage and also if you wanted to gift money to someone that is taxed and also when you draw your perosnal pension that is taxed also.
- rasko40
lets not forget inheritance tax, so even in death we are taxed. There is no escape.
What's that film that exposes the fact that in the states there is no single law that means americans HAVE to pay tax, basically the IRS is blagging them all.
- Mooski0
I'm originally from Australia, where you only pay council tax (rates) when you own a property (I guess the landlords takes it out in your rent to them). Anyways, it makes it soooo much cheaper to rent... and makes me really resent having to pay the damn council so much especially when they are so dodgy (two words - George Galloway).
- ajm0
What's that film that exposes the fact that in the states there is no single law that means americans HAVE to pay tax, basically the IRS is blagging them all.
rasko4
(Jul 12 06, 12:58)
- Triss0
Mooski; the great thing about Aus is tax back time ;)
- Engage0
you could always just fuck off back to australia... I kid I kid! :)
- Triss0
I would if there were any decent work out there! :P
- honest0
i too live in a converted building, it was a new build and split into 5 seperate flats. My tiny one bed flat is in class B according to some fuckwit and I pay a horrid £127 a month, what's everybody else pay? I managed to weasel out a few months by saying my wife wasn't my wife but some crazy backpacking japanese student.
- Concrete0
I bought a flat in a converted house in March.
I only moved in 6 weeks ago so I figured that I would only pay counsel tax from my move in date.
WRONG.
Bastards threatened court action or bailiffs!
I would be much better off if I just sponged off the government.
Hate this country. We pay higher taxes than every other country in europe except Germany. At least their country looks nice.
- honest0
our little country island sucks, what exactly do we export? why aren't we making any money? anyone here from iceland? what are your taxes like?
- agentfour0
sweden has some hideous taxes....but they get free healthcare and all sorts of benefits from it
- PublikStar0
I pay £82 a month even though i'm not fully employed.
Greedy fat cats...
- paraselene0
i don't know why, but we only pay £30 per month per person in our three-bed maisonette.
granted, it is falling apart at the bloody seams and there was a stabbing across the street a couple of weeks ago...
- honest0
i don't know why, but we only pay £30 per month per person in our three-bed maisonette.
granted, it is falling apart at the bloody seams and there was a stabbing across the street a couple of weeks ago...
paraselene
(Jul 13 06, 01:25)You've always been lucking with accommodation, what's your secret?
- Triss0
*Bump if you hate the UK!