Is Council Tax unfair?

Do you think council tax is unfair and need altering. I mean as a student we don't pay any council tax which I think is fair. However, if we were, when we do its like a grand a year for a cr*ppy shoebox size studio flat. Yet, its only another 2-300 or so for a complete house So shouldn't the bandings also include a calculation for the size of the property you live in, not just the market value, or perhaps instead scrap council tax and just stick it on VAT.

Perhaps it should be added to VAT with a specific percentage of VAT going to pay for it, them everyone pays even tourists, so the burden is more evenly spread and encourages people not to waste resources.

Just think the present system your kind of subsiding larger property's. I mean you look around your cr*appy studio flat or whatever and think, 'If I wasn't a student they would want me to pay how much? for living in this dive on top of the rent already being paid.

Perhaps it should be added to VAT with a specific percentage of VAT going to pay for it, them everyone pays even tourists, so the burden is more evenly spread and encourages people not to waste resources.

Just think the present system your kind of subsiding larger property's. I mean you look around your cr*appy studio flat or whatever and think, 'If I wasn't a student they would want me to pay how much? for living in this dive on top of the rent already being paid.

Perhaps it should be added to VAT with a specific percentage of VAT going to pay for it, them everyone pays even tourists, so the burden is more evenly spread and encourages people not to waste resources.

Just think the present system your kind of subsiding larger property's. I mean you look around your cr*appy studio flat or whatever and think, 'If I wasn't a student they would want me to pay how much? for living in this dive on top of the rent already being paid.

Do you think council tax is unfair and need altering. I mean as a student we don't pay any council tax which I think is fair. However, if we were, when we do its like a grand a year for a cr*ppy shoebox size studio flat. Yet, its only another 2-300 or so for a complete house So shouldn't the bandings also include a calculation for the size of the property you live in, not just the market value, or perhaps instead scrap council tax and just stick it on VAT.

Can someone tell me, I am not trying to be provocative here, but what was actually so bad about the poll tax, it makes perfect sense to me. A poll tax within bandings would be perfect.

It was bad because Labour Councils had, on average, the highest tax.

Taxation = Punishment to business and economic growth!

The government should get its nose out of peoples pockets.

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It was bad because Labour Councils had, on average, the highest tax.

Im not sure that fair or unfair has anything to do with it but it is just another tax on us as serfs. Once upon a time services were paid from national budgets. You paid national taxes. They then devolved powers to local authorities to manage budgets. They in turn launched the poll tax. Many of you guys and girls may be too young to remember the UK poll tax riots. It truly was the closest this country came to civil war for centuries.
Pitched battles were fought on the streets between the people and the states enforcers..the police.

So now we have national taxes which have increased to close the gap, and local taxes which again increase.

Truth is,we are not free. We are slaves in the engine room of the good ship UK Capitalist and we are working almost for nothing only to be taxed,taxed and taxed again.

You get your income tax, then when you dare to spend whats left,well you get your VAT. Care to die?>inheritance tax. Dare to invest and make a profit? Capital gains tax...

I would like to see a system where everybody contributes something, and where there is also some link between what you pay and what you consume, so it doesn't give incentives to some people to just freeload and place a high burden on the rest.