Friday, March 31, 2006
Local elections
Pensioners to face steep tax rise!
In South Tyneside, council tax will be 1288 pounds for the forthcoming year on Band D bills. Yet new research has shown that since 1997, council tax bills have soared by 525 pounds - a hike of 69%, or more than five times inflation. This year alone, pensioners are paying an extra 246 pounds a year, due to the Government axing the 200 pound payment given to them to help with their council tax. For how much longer can this continue? South Tyneside needs to change direction; hard-working families and pensioners who have saved for security in retirement all deserve better. Voting Conservative is the only way to get South Tyneside on the right track.
Lib-Dem tax plans shock!
I was interested to note too that the new Lib Dem leader, Sir Menzies Campbell, thinks that there has been "too much attention" paid to his party's policy of a 50% rate of income tax for high earners (BBC News Online 5 March 2006). Does this mean he intends to ditch it? If so does this also mean the Lib Dems will now bin plans for some of the other taxes they have previously discussed such as a new homes tax, a business land tax, a development tax, an exchange and capital flows tax, a waste tax, a plastic bag tax, a pesticide tax, an overseas territories tax, a double whammy inheritance tax, an energy tax, a pensions tax, an airport tax, a congestion tax, a 4X4 vehicle tax, tax for going to university and a parking tax? I think these are important questions which need that the people of South Tyneside deserve answers to prior to the May elections.
Submitted by
Cllr. David Potts (Conservative - Cleadon Village and East Boldon)
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