BURY Council has recently saddled us with a £1,420 council tax bill in respect of our Band B terraced house.
A more appropriate day to deliver this swingeing, inflation-busting demand would have been April 1.
A £17 million mansion in London's Belgravia District attracts a council tax levy that is, astonishingly, £44 less than Bury Council is demanding of us for our Spartan accommodation.
This grotesque discrepancy not only exposes the dysfunctionality of a top heavy, final-salary burdened organization but, also, the drastic need for a much-expanded council tax banding system.
Bury's Labour controlled councils have long been responsible for handing out eye-watering monetary spankings to its house-holding hostages.
Regrettably, they still appear doctrinally wedded to a discredited socialist ethos that assumes you can spend your way out of any trying situation.
Methinks a Knowsley Street spring clean is way overdue.
Pete Haworth
Holcombe Road
Greenmount
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