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Originally Posted by kurtz
As for crime not paying your council tax is one of the few things which will get you a shared room in one of HM's prisons.
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Yup, even if you're an old biddy in her 70's. Can't find bbc link 
It wouldn't be so bad if when a miscalculation is made and you overpay your tax, that you get it paid back to you. No, it sits in the local authority coffers gaining interest whilst they magnanimously inform you that it will be deducted from your next years council tax bill.  |
In Tring (well Dacorum who are the Borough council and one tier higher) they posted to evrybody that they had overcharged us by 16p (£0.16) however it costs 26p(i think) to send us a letter so what was the bloody point? perhaps instead they could have emptied the bin a more thoroughly rather than spread the contents in the streets, opened the public library a bit longer
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Sadly it's not just a money and excessive bureaucracy thing either; my city has suffered from endless roadworks in the inner city ring road. Not forgetting the fiasco with pedestrianising the areas of the city centre. Last year the contractors moved in and dug up the roads to lay down brick cobbles and paving slabs and marble from china (apparently). This year they are digging it all up again because firstly the job was bodged and all the new pedestrian areas are subsiding, and secondly the expensive marble was the wrong kind and so had to be sent back to china and more procured and polished at further expense.
The closing of local authority run community centres and lack of local support for various associations (for the elderly etc), the list goes on.
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Ditto tring, lovely brick paving, great! 6 months later it's collapsed around the grids and stuff and they've got new people in to do it. Thing is I had exactly the same thing with my drive (on a smaller scale obviously) and I got the builder back in and got him to fix at without me paying, so why do the council pay someone else to do it? had they got a load of bloody gypsies (sorry, lovely romany travelling folk) in to do it cheap and now they've baggered off? well? well? I ask you and we said we didn't want a Tesco store and the Borough council said well actually you do you just don't realise the benefits.. that's enough for now, it's friday night I'm off to get drunk
