Expensive Experiment

8.54.34am BST (GMT +0100) Fri 22nd Apr 2005

Simon Davey, Congleton West County Candidate has expressed further concern about both the Conservative Party and Labour Party's Council Tax plans, after learning of a man in Abergavenny who has suffered already under the re-banding. In the 1997/1998 year, his tax demand for his Band E house was 484.45, and the demand ten years later was 1,104.72.

His property has been revalued to Band G with no extra services and no rating officer has called at his house! His tax demand for the coming year is 1,563.09!

Simon commented "Mr Williams is under 65 on a small pension due to ill health and is watching his family income being devastated. Can it be that those who support Council tax in its present form are living in the real world? There is no excuse for such an injustice in today's Britain. Surely the only fair way of raising money locally is a means tested local income tax, linked to what people actually bring home."