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Originally Posted by Barrie Yates
What about the £750,00- underspend from last year? I also understood that the Central Government had decreed that there was to be no increases in Council Tax!!!!!!!!!
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He's doing us all a big personal favour, it just happens to fall in line with Mr Cameron's threat to withhold a 2.5% council tax grant from any authority which raises council taxes.
The £750,000 underspend is something of a grey area with a lot of suspiciously round figures contibuting to it. It has now increased to £850,000 so I'm told but whether the VAT rebate has been accounted for yet again remains to be seen.
The bottom line is that HBC is £12.2m in debt and it has absolutely nothing to do with any Labour government but if they'd been a bit more prudent over the years we could have got that down a little. The interest payments each month would happily pay for a few flash mobs, or maybe even allow a certain toilet to remain open.
Saving pennies adds up to pounds, but who cares when it isn't their money?