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Originally Posted by Neil
If the poll tax brought in more money to the Council than the rates system where did the Councils get that extra money from before?
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Government, in fact they were thinking of scrapping Rates altogether but came up with the Community Charge Neil, which was quickly changed to Council Tax, I'm still not convinced that this is the right way of paying for local services, but its been with us for over 20 years now and until somebody comes up with something different it looks like being with us for the time being, you'll never find something which satisfies all of the people, but until they come up with something different looks like we're stuck with it. Having said that the Community Charge used correctly would have been the answer, if it was implemented today at a reasonable level it could work, but like anything there are winners and losers, and losers will always make their voice heard