The replacement of the Poll Tax, Council Tax, is criticized for its unfairness and failure to properly compensate for differences in income and wealth.
The Poll Tax was a deeply unpopular policy because, at its most basic level, it felt unfair. The problem was that it simply did not reflect an individual’s ability to pay. The poorest families and the richest families were expected to contribute an equal amount, meaning that, as a proportion of one’s income, the poorest were much worse off. However, we are now in a position where its replacement, Council Tax , has morphed into a new version of the Poll Tax .
And because of hugely imbalanced property prices across the country, it acts as a drag on rebalancing our regional economies and levelling up the areas of the country that need it the most. Whilst Council Tax is somewhat more progressive – property value is banded and it is levied on capital value as opposed to notional rental value – it still fails to properly compensate for differences in actual income and wealt
Poll Tax Council Tax Unfairness Income Wealth Regional Economies Property Prices
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