Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

if you're going to stay with banding, then you obviously eliminate most appeals
however, did you not advocate abandoning banding altogether?

i may well be wrong, but i think it is local councils who value the properties in their area and the revenue from "council tax" goes to that council, rather as it says on the tin ...... thus absolute value-accuracy is not quite as important

if you're going to value houses and the money is then going to go to the exchequer, then you open up a complete can of worms and a total shambles will ensue


your crap about income tax is not even worthy of response

TANKER makes some good points on local estate agents and bands for the mansion tax.

Its the valuation officers who do it now at the LA.

the banding is fine and works .
as for your comments on tax that means you are a very greedy I am all right jack and fcuk the rest

that about sums you up cynic as all can see your father must turn in is grave after
what man kind did to help him in need

ed is now talking like a future PM and all at the club agree with is latest statements

whatever you say, but then 95% of what you spout is total tripe anyway, and this is another such occasion, and as abusive as usual

if you're now happy that banding should stay in place - a change of stance, but we're all allowed that - then fine
as it stands, i have no idea in % terms what our council charges and i suspect it will vary considerably from area to area depending on a great many factors

however, if you want to move away from a local tax, to one where the money goes to the central exchequer - for what purpose this change? - then it becomes a very different exercise

LA = what other than Los Angeles?

speaking the truth is not abuse . you are a man who does not want to pay is way and that is fact by your posts .
in my bringing up by my parents those that have should help those that have not .

Income tax was imposed as a temporary measure to pay for a war. No one likes paying tax unless they are mad. If I could pay less or no tax I would. Tax companies and let incomes be tax free. I would prefer a return to the poll tax, which was the fairest. It was based on working age people in the household. The more people, the more services they use.

G F .the conservative party will not win the election they are a party of liars and crooks .
ed is now talking what the people want to hear .
that fowl tory candidate begging voters to save the tories by not voting lab or green
our low can you get lower than a snakes belly

hay that about sums you up low life .

Milibland will cost Labour the election, just as Kinnock and foot did.

taxes are like death - they are unavoidable

tell me MrT, do you make use of your tax allowances and if so, do you then donate those savings to charity?

Nigel Farage has gleefully branded David Cameron "desperate", after the prime minister took the unusual step of asking Labour and Lib Dem supporters to vote tactically for the Conservatives in the Rochester by-election to prevent Ukip from winning.


cynic I pay my taxes and happy to do so and very happy to vote yes to put up taxes
is that clear enough

What does it matter what Farage says.

what kind of people do not want to pay taxes to make the country a better place to live and not to see people struggling . and to have a good health care system for all
the gov should put it to the public to vote on and ever one over 16
I no what the public would vote for

i didn't ask you whether or not you paid your taxes ..... much as it may surprise you, so do i

Never been so many people in work, or so the government would have you believe.


So, why do they need to keep borrowing money if everything is hunky dory?

I think people keep borrowing money because they keep spending more than they should! Basic housekeeping and balancing of finances says don't spend more than you earn - and it's far too easy to get into debt with credit cards etc.

a) because advertising and credit and store cards encourage people to overspend

b) we live in an age where everyone wants to have the latest mobile phone and the biggest tv etc, and immediately

c) few people now know how to cook properly, so they'll but ready meals and packets of biscuits etc rather than make casseroles from cheaper cuts of meat, make their own biscuits etc

c) just because one is in work, it does not mean as a matter of fact that you have enough to live on even "sensibly", which is why a lot of people need second jobs or top-up from benefits (i assume that's allowed)

And whats the governments excuse for borrowing ever more money?