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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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One of the better reasons for getting rid of LCC. I've spent years on the doorstep trying to justify spending that we as a local authority have no control over.