| Council Tax Cover-Up: New Evidence Of Serious Errors In Council Tax Bills |
| Tuesday, 30 June 2009 | |
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Surge in council tax appeals in Tamworth reveals systematic over-charging by Government Gordon Brown and his Ministers are deliberately covering up serious problems over the banding of homes for council tax,
· Official papers from Gordon Brown’s council tax inspectors, the Valuation Office Agency, have admitted that many homes are in the wrong band for council tax and families have been paying over the odds for years. Accidentally leaked minutes have confessed that if the tax errors became known, the Government would lose money and would have to pay tax refunds. This was also ruled out since it would generate “adverse press coverage… in the current climate”. · The combination of a campaign by ‘Money Saving Expert’ Martin Lewis, the publication of these leaked minutes and an ITV Tonight documentary, has produced a surge in council tax appeals. Now Parliamentary Questions have forced the Government to publish detailed figures on the changes to council tax bands. · In the last three years, 190,000 existing homes have had their council tax band changed: 133,985 homes have moved down a band. In · Mr. Pincher said: “We now have clear evidence of a council tax cover-up. The Labour Government has been caught red-handed fiddling council tax to make families in our town and across the country pay more. “The whole basis of our tax system is undermined if the state conspires to over-charge the public. Labour Ministers only want to reform the council tax system if it rakes in extra cash for Gordon Brown’s spending binges.” |
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