This petition was submitted during the 2017-2019 parliament
Rejected petition Council tax: local referendums stop this planned council tax increase
Council Tax has been going up Excessive amounts every year and we are getting less services for our money each year. The Government should fund more to councils with the Tax already paid to them by the Taxpayers. Wages/inflation is not as high as the rises which most households can now ill afford.
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Libraries, Schools,Police and services are being reduced or closed down every year. This has to stop. School class sizes are rising, policing and services have been decimated. My council tax is now almost 10% of my wage with tax and national insurance this take my tax liability to over 45% for a low income family, surely this cannot continue.The excuse is social care but this is also taken out from our taxes and Nat Insurance contributions. Stop this exploitation now. The government do not care.
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