Comment on UK ‘in violation of international law’ over poverty levels, says UN envoy

• smeg@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How much you pay is proportional to how much your property is worth (see Wikipedia for deets)

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  • PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Okay, so like property taxes here. Gotcha. I was just interested in different methods of collecting funds there are.

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    • tankplanker@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I wish we had a proper property tax here that was based on house and land value that was the same nationally. With the way council tax works richer areas, which almost always have more expensive houses and land, pay less annually than the same property in the cheaper area and yet their local council is better funded. A national system is the only way to reverse this.

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    • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t know where your property tax goes, but that might overlap with our Stamp Duty, which is basically our tax on buying a house and is a nationwide government thing. Council Tax I think goes to your local council and is used for things like bin collection, buses, potholes, and local community events (and it keeps going up because the Tories keep cutting the amount that councils get from the government).

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