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Originally posted by c1
no chance of you getting a penny back, please bear in mind that 25% of the council taxes we all pay goes into their pension pot. and you can bet a pound to a penny that most of the people who will stay at home over this cold snap will be on tax payers payroll.
We live one third of a mile up a farm lane, and it's impossible to leave a bin at the end of the road. When we moved to this house in 1983 the council gave us black bin bags and told us to leave the rubbish at the end of the road for pick-up by the bin men. Unfortunately, seagulls etc., started to break open the bags, and as there are houses at the end of the road and the residents complained to us, my husband decided to take our rubbish to the local dump every Saturday morning.
Last year I contacted the council and asked could they reduce our Council Tax, which included rubbish removal. I explained we had never used this service we were being charged for. I was told by the Council that they could not reduce our Council Tax as the rubbish removal cost very little, and most of the tax was for the schools!![
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