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Originally Posted by garinda
Before Thatcher introduced the Poll Tax, the precursor to the Council Tax, local authorities could each decide what discount second/third home owners had to pay. The average paid, of the whole rateable value, was about 30-50%.
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I know when I moved back to Ossy in the 80's I still had a property on mortgage, in Hassy, if I remember rightly, in those days if the house was unoccupied there had to be no furniture in that property in order to pay zero rates.