Thursday, May 06, 2010
Yet they cant stop nuisances, useless corrupt councils
Dailymail: The council snoopers sizing up your garden for a 'tax database'
It would take into account alterations which have added value to houses like conservatories and extra bedrooms. It would also mean higher bills for those with swimming pools, summer houses, nearby parks and public transport links.
Posted by mark @ 12:27 PM (1084 views) Add Comment
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1. rumble said...
It's not complicated. If you vote for government to look after everything, they're going to need to monitor everything. Police states.
2. Crunchy said...
Fatten it up and suck it dry.
3. mark wadsworth said...
Oh dear, the Home-Owner-Ist anti-LVT brigade sounding the battle charge again. What do these people want? A broad brush LVT that is based on actual (relative) selling prices and actual plot sizes, as ably recorded by HM Land Registry, suitably averaged out (at which they will whine 'Yes but why should I pay more because my neighbour's house had a new kitchen before he sold it') or 26 million arguments over the precise capital value of each property (which of course changes up or down ten per cent a year) at which they will whine about council snoopers?
4. Crunchy said...
1. rumble
THE ENDGAME.
5. mrflibble said...
Sounds reasonable to me. I don't understand why buying and selling a house is tax free anyway. Any profit made should be subject to income tax. Profits made over and above inflation should be taxed at 99% if you ask me. It's an house FFS not an investment or a pension.
6. rumble said...
Crunchy, we're on the same train, just different carriages.
7. braindeed said...
2. Crunchy said...
Fatten it up and suck it dry.
OOOOh, Matron
8. mark wadsworth said...
as to the headline "sizing up your garden", crikey, just imagine the council decides to widen the pavement in front of some houses and nick a six foot wide strip of front garden, then all of a sudden people would know exactly how big their garden was.
In any event, HMLR has this quaint invention called "maps" which is like a sheet of paper which marks which plot belongs to whom, and they also have a computer that can tell them how big each plot is.
9. cyril said...
It seems fair to tax things based on their value. Where I live, the houses are very small and extensions or loft conversions adds a lot to the selling price (and look as ugly as hell usually).
10. Crunchy said...
8. mark wadsworth
Red routes=Paying to park in your own/banks driveway. Watch this space.
11. Crunchy said...
7. braindeed, indeed, braindeed.
12. cynicalsoothsayer said...
Except it's not up to the council to decide values and banding, it's the VOA and SAA.
13. 51ck-6-51x said...
"""
We'd be better off moving to a third world country. Oh that's what we are about to be living in.
- Vin 'D' ictive, Birmingham UK, 06/5/2010 16:11
"""
- I wish people like this would follow through with their ideas: Good luck finding that nice house with a garden, fresh running water and all your mod-cons in Dharavi.
14. Exiges said...
-- "It seems fair to tax things based on their value"
No it doesn't. Tax has already been paid on it's acquisition by way of income tax on the money scraped together to buy it, and stamp duty on the purchase itself.
Regardless of the size of your house or the number of occupants, you can only throw one wheelie-bin full of rubbish per fortnight anyway.
I prefer the old flat-rate per-person tax.
15. mr g said...
What ever next?
An article from the Mail that's been posted for nearly 8 hours and no derogatory comments from our Guardian reading contributors?
16. rumble said...
When gov is expected to control everything they do.
17. rumble said...
Dharavi is a slum, that's not a fair example. lol. Look at this fine choice. There are two countries there that I would move to if I could get in, alas, the third world are the ones with immigration control.