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Originally Posted by andrewb
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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Do you know I sometimes despair when I read your posts. It has been pointed out that HBC have had numerous grants which should have avoided these big rises in council tax. So why has it gone up by 31.8%?? The fact that it has been less than the increase in wages is neither here nor there because besides council tax everything else has gone up. So the 4.2% extra on wage increases that is over and above the increase in council tax has already been eaten up by the price of other things rising. It is time you entered the real world and admitted that HBC are making a mess of things and wasting money
