Council tax! Why? Why? Why?

Council tax! Why? Why? Why?

With £160 per month I pay for council tax i could get myself a nice new car, but instead i have to pay for



Schools - For the kids i don't have

Support further & higher education - When I still don't have kids

Rubbish collection - When I can do it myself

Museums & art galleries - WTF!!!!!!

Administration of licences and permits - That I don't have

Administration of council tax - Without council tax you wouldn't need to pay for

Parking enforcement and car parks - When you're charged a bomb for parking in the first place

Funeral services at local cemeteries and crematoria - WTF!!!

Rocks and flowers on roundabouts - you have to be kidding!!

Libraries - Only useful if you can't find a photocopier

registrar of births, marriages and deaths - Even though we have to pay extra for these anyway

go on mate shout your heart out take it to the top dont let it rest

you live in soceity who's affluence you've propsered on, you've been presented with educational and employment oppertunities that wouldn't exist in that state that couldn't afford to set up a similar structure.

pay your tax and quit whining

Fair one!

But it still hurts............

You've missed police, fire brigade, doctors, and ambulance service off your list.

Speaking of council tax whats the craic with students and council tax? do we have to register out details etc

Thanks!! il have to enquire when i register on Sunday

You have to get a certificate from your Uni that states you are a student there and how long for and then send it into them and they don't charge you. Everyone in the hosue has to be a student for it to be free or they proportion it

thanks Natalie best print this info out and take it with me

For my council tax I get verbal abuse from the binmen and weed killer on various parts of my garden which they don't even have the right to come into :evil: :evil: :evil:

Re: Re: Council tax! Why? Why? Why?

thats true fuck off 2 bagdad

I don't mind paying it apart from paying the wages of the people mentioned above who abuse people and damage property.

One of the binwagon drivers used to come to the door shouting and swearing for the car to be moved (how a clio can block the road when it's partly parked on the path is beyond me!). The car is always parked in the same place and no other driver ever has any trouble getting past it. On one occasion he even tried to get into my house. Came walking down the garden and tried to open my door as if he was visting someone he knew

Luckily the door was locked and he doesn't do our street anymore

I kept forgetting to. Was months go now though. I'm gonna complain about the muppet that put weedkiller on my privately owned garden though

If you check out your council tax bill a percentage , or precept, goes to the local emergency services - not a very big percentage, granted.

PRINCESS JANE

Everyone has the right to whinge about council tax because it seems so unfair. The fact that we are taxed so many times (pensions your taxed twice!!) and we work hard and have to house those fuckers who do nothing but claim benefits, WE pay for!

Your forgetting the council gets MASSIVE amounts of money from speed cameras which most of us dont want in 90% of the places they are put.

Obviously the tax is required and I dont mind paying it to people who are genuine claimers but imo, they could lower the bill and get rid of loads of unneccesary costs.