THE plan to revalue council tax bands will once again remove our hard-earned wages and place yet more funds into the council to employ yet more staff with silly job titles, good salaries and index-linked pensions.
You only have to look at the lists of jobs advertised by the council in your paper.
Peter Jewell, president of Hereford and Worcester Valuation Tribunal, obviously does not realise council tax has shot up at well above the rates of inflation since it was introduced in 1993 having written that our homes have not been re-valued for rates for 14 years. I would like to make several points on this subject.
Why are we penalised for improving our homes, as we do not receive any extra benefits from the council? What percentage of taxpayers will receive a reduction in their rates? Judging by his letter, Mr Jewell seems to indicate a figure of about 50 per cent.
When all our tax bands have been set, the only course of action left to us is to complain to the very people who implemented the rise.
Maybe it's about time for the council to be run on the lines of a business and work to a budget and not a top-heavy, bottomless money pit.
M HUMPHRIES,
Worcester.
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