Hi
because the tax based in the assumption that a property (and the people within it) will use roughly the same services.
There is a nod to the ability to pay by having different price bands for different value of property.
This also gives a nod to the larger (therefore more expensive houses) contain more people and have to pay more.
It is a horseshit system from top to bottom.
The least horseshit bit is the single person occupancy rebate, hence why people are jumping all over you. You dont use half the services provided just because you live on your own, you use more than half. You also benefit, in a societal way, from the services others use and you dont. I understand you dont / wont see this. The only way to get the system you seem to want is to only pay for the services you use. To do that you would need to track the services you use and how often the admin involved in this would without doubt eat up any possible savings you would make. The other problem with that is that lots of the services provided are needed when people are least likely to be able to afford them (social care etc etc) so what happens then? Let people suffer, let people die?
As I have said in numerous posts its not unfair to you, unless you think there is no such thing as society and you have no responsibility to anyone else.
As I have also said, we need to change the way we fund local authorities. My favoured option would be a local income tax (and local corporation tax). You would hate this as you would probably be paying more than all the people that are worse off than you and I am guessing from the tone of your posts you think these are skivers.
