From: "Andy Pandy" 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: Why is council tax so high?
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 17:01:16 +0100


"Nebulous"  wrote in message
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> The main problem with the poll tax was that it was supposed to be an
> individual tax and people on benefits only paid a small proportion of it.
> Yet a couple where only one partner was working had to pay two full taxes,
> rather than getting the discount for the non-working partner.
>
> This discriminated heavily against people with children.

Exactly, and it's similar with the council tax. If two people share a house and
one is on a zero (or very low)  income, they are able to claim second adult
rebate so they only pay 75% of the council tax. BUT this doesn't apply if the
two adults are partners, then they still have to pay 100%.

--
Andy