Quote Originally Posted by Beskar View Post
Punishes those with big families in backwater shoddy flats while rewarding single occupancy in a Country Villa with swimming pool.*

Corrected enough?
No, because "Big families" are still usually only two people over 18, maybe three or four. The Notional "single occupancy" could be A: A single executive, already paying 50% tax, or B: a widow living in her ancestral home who barely ever leaves the house, only uses four rooms and has meals on wheels.

Currently the Council Tax taxes the property you live in, not the use you make of services. We already have an Income Tax which takes from the Rich and gives to the poor, we already have stamp duty to realise the value of a property when you sell it, Inheritance Tax to punish your children when you die etc.

If there are four working adults (no point taxting the unemployed) in your house, you are a greater burden on the local Police, Health Service, Roads etc. than one person. So why should one successful person pay for the use four unsucessful persons make of the same services.

After all, Income Tax already strips away a greater proportion of the money wealthy people earn than it does poor people.