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Originally Posted by gynn
The Band "A" Council Tax in 2010/11 is £1,032.49.
Hyndburn gets £153.68 (14.9%)
Lancashire County Council gets £738.87 (71.6%)
Lancashire Police Authority gets £97.51 (9.4%)
Lancashire Fire Authority gets £42.43 (4.1%)
So the local Council gets about one seventh of the overall Council Tax, but is faced with 100% of the hassle in trying to collect it.
The County in its various forms takes the other six sevenths of the Council Tax, and sits back laughing at the efforts of the poor local Council in trying to collect it.
If I submitted that arrangement in a novel to a publisher, it would be rejected for being too ridiculous. But that is local government 2010 style!
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Plus County Council have increased their share of the taxes by more than Hyndburn Council over the last 10 years, yet Hyndburn Councillors will get all the blame for higher council tax.