tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post9006584493742664578..comments2024-03-27T06:56:10.255+00:00Comments on Broad Oak Magazine: The Perfect Tax (1)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-40549077343365542592017-08-26T19:57:33.585+01:002017-08-26T19:57:33.585+01:00I can as most of our age the introduction of poll ...I can as most of our age the introduction of poll tax, at the time council tax (rates) was going through the roof and had no bearing on demands or ability to pay.<br />Sadly the poltax wa equally badly implemented yet if it had been implemented fairly would have been a much fairer alternative and much better understood.<br /><br />The poor implementation and the "poll tax riots" by all those who never paid bugger all for the services they received scuppered the tax.<br /><br />We are now faced with council tax that now that the brakes have been taken off go the same way as rates, what is basically wrong with council tax/rates is that only roughly 38% , and that was from the chief accountant in Suffolk twenty years ago, actually pay the tax, the reasons are all ther to see but to long winded to go into now, but in essence there was nothing wrong with the poll tax if it had been properly administered.<br />After all this current tax is to pay for sevices enjoyed by all but less than half contribute !wiggiatlargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01679399861131265080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-34727776731971216482017-08-26T16:04:51.978+01:002017-08-26T16:04:51.978+01:00... and how do you see the Government introducing ...... and how do you see the Government introducing it? Increasing Council tax while not reducing other taxes?<br /><br />"If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken<br /> Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools"...Sackersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17284329249862764601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-25903461542832443802017-08-26T14:24:14.790+01:002017-08-26T14:24:14.790+01:00You'll know the dodges when window tax was int...You'll know the dodges when window tax was introduced in the Netherlands - how would you envisage taxpayer behaviour changing if LVT were introduced? And the knock-on effects on how property might be owned, how investment asset allocation would change etc?Sackersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17284329249862764601noreply@blogger.com