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Worth repeating this from a recent TuS blog post to give another way of setting out Council Tax baselines prior to next financial year’s CT increases across Great Britain.
Insights into differences across Great Britain in 2024-25 for the benchmark average Band D tax can be found at https://propertydata.co.uk/council-tax
Focusing on Wales where the British Labour Party governs:
- of the cohort of 35 local authorities in GB with the lowest tax, 33 are in Scotland – the exceptions are Wandsworth and Westminster in London which have the lowest rates of all
- the highest tax charge reported in Scotland is for Argyll & Bute at £1,627
- the lowest tax charge reported in Wales is for Caerphilly at £1,813
- the highest charge in Wales is for Merthyr Tydfil at £2,329 and in England for Rutland at £2,543. (Recall from above, only two English councils have had lower Band D rates than any council in Scotland.)
The contrast between Council Tax Band D rates in Scotland and Wales is quite remarkable! Is this what the British Labour Party would like to see in Scotland after 2026? ‘Levelling-up’ Scotland Labour style?
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Even more impressive when you consider that Scotlands bills include the water & sewage parts, whil England & Wales have to pay it on top.
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I didn’t know that…SNP need to get these facts out to people in Scotland. Hope they have some clever plans to do that given the ‘media’ are 100% anti SNP, propagandising every day to demonise the Scottish party at the helm that is keeping the wolf at bay for the people of Scotland, against huge odds of having hands tied behind their backs by the English ‘UK’ government.
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“Levelling up” Scotland Labour style.
Never a truer word spoken Prof.
Voters of Scotland beware.
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Is that a prison in the pic? Looks almost as bad as some ‘housing’ that was built right across Scotland, when under full English rule.
The English HQ’d parties operating in Scotland would hike up council tax to the hilt, while cuting back essential services, that’s what’s in store for Scotland if they take over Holyrood again.
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