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Old 08-06-2008, 23:01   #26
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Re: Council Tax 2008/2009

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Originally Posted by claytonender View Post
- the median earnings of all workers have rsien from £275.20 to £374.90 per week from 2000 to 2007 (£99.70 per week = 36.23%). This is broken down into men's earning rising from £309.00 per week to £427.90 (£118.90 per week or 38.48%) and women's earning have risen from £215.90 to £267.80 (£51.90 per week or 24.03%).

As Council Tax has risen by 45% (which is Andrewb's reckoning), it has gone up by 9% more than Median Gross Weekly Pay.
1999-2009 is where the 45% is from (not just my figures, they have been used in the local Observer since I posted them here).

If you take the period 1999-2007 council tax increase is 31.8%. So if you take your figure of 36% over that period, council tax has actually been less than the increase in wages. I hadn't noticed this, thank-you for highlighting it.
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