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IN regard to your leader of April 21 on local taxation, and as one of your "single older people on fixed incomes in higher banded properties", with the added burden this year of requiring to pay full rates on a "second home" (built by my great-grandfather) at the behest of a misguided Highland Council who hitherto had given me a logical 50per cent rebate, I, along with so many others, am f labbergasted that our political masters have for so long persisted in such an immoral and unfair system of funding local authorities. Your leader goes on to outline various difficulties which could arise if a local tax based on earnings were to be initiated.
So let us simplify the whole exercise. The Republic of Ireland gives us the solution. There, no rates whatsoever are demanded of domestic dwellings, as distinct from business premises. Central government disburses to each local authority a sum relating to the number of dwellings within its jurisdiction, all funded by income tax to the former. What could be simpler? I may add that all pensioners receive free bus and rail travel and telephone rental.See the full content of this document
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Just Get Rid of It
So, I ask, ...
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