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park381 · 15-11-2005, 19:49

Following on from a-b's observations, lets assume that we had "got rid" of LCC and were now part of a Unitary authority, say Blackburn with Darwen who now look after and administer all services including education, social services, library services etc. Would you be prepared to pay more through your council tax for that privilege. If we look at the current council tax charges of BwD and HBC we would find that in BwD they pay more in each council tax band, since band D is the base line and all other bands are calculated from D we would see that in band D BwD pay £73.05 more per year, the bottom end of the scale band A would be £48.69 more, the top end of the scale band H would be £146.10 more.
I am not saying I am in favour of the existing 2 tier system, just presenting some facts to the thread.

15-11-2005, 19:49	#53
park381 Senior Member+ Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: On the border Posts: 2,160 Blog Entries: 10 Liked: 0 times Rep Power: 2287	Re: What would this cost us Following on from a-b's observations, lets assume that we had "got rid" of LCC and were now part of a Unitary authority, say Blackburn with Darwen who now look after and administer all services including education, social services, library services etc. Would you be prepared to pay more through your council tax for that privilege. If we look at the current council tax charges of BwD and HBC we would find that in BwD they pay more in each council tax band, since band D is the base line and all other bands are calculated from D we would see that in band D BwD pay £73.05 more per year, the bottom end of the scale band A would be £48.69 more, the top end of the scale band H would be £146.10 more. I am not saying I am in favour of the existing 2 tier system, just presenting some facts to the thread. __________________ Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. Albert Einstein.