Breaking news - Council tax to be abolished!

[WTFH]

This is centralish Slough (note the handy Job centre plus). £750,000 for a 4 bed.

4 bedroom detached house for sale in Clyde Close, Slough, Berkshire, SL1


I live a lot further out.

Are you closer to the centre of Staines?

[vetran]

Are you closer to the centre of Staines?

We don't talk about Staines, we try to forget the poor people exist, much the same as those in Maidenhead.

[DimPrawn]

This is centralish Slough (note the handy Job centre plus). £750,000 for a 4 bed.

4 bedroom detached house for sale in Clyde Close, Slough, Berkshire, SL1


I live a lot further out.

For a little more you can be the proud owner of a rusty box on top of some garages!

Derelict garage transformed into a modern two-bed home for GBP825,000 | Daily Mail Online

[woohoo]

Runcorn: a big chavvy blister just outside Liverpool

Sums it up better than I could....

When I was growing up in the jewelled city of Liverpool, I always considered Runcorn to be quite posh.

[BR14]

Are you closer to the centre of Staines?

nah, he's a stain too far

[AtW]

It starts with 0.5% and before you know there will be additional rate taxpayer bands

[vetran]

It starts with 0.5% and before you know there will be additional rate taxpayer bands

yep

[Hobosapien]

Hopefully they make it payable by the property owner and not tenant so gets absorbed in the rent cost like service charges are.

Then the tenant will be better off as rent affordability follows housing benefit levels and it's another nail in the coffin of amateur 'accidental' landlords pricing out first time buyers by Borrowing to Let all the cheaper properties.

Bring it on.

[DimPrawn]

Hopefully they make it payable by the property owner and not tenant so gets absorbed in the rent cost like service charges are.

Then the tenant will be better off as rent affordability follows housing benefit levels and it's another nail in the coffin of amateur 'accidental' landlords pricing out first time buyers by Borrowing to Let all the cheaper properties.

Bring it on.

I can't see the ultra low tax May govt implementing this....oh hang on.

[LondonManc]

When I was growing up in the jewelled city of Liverpool, I always considered Runcorn to be quite posh.

Just proud not to be from Liverpool and relieved not to be from the town of the high six, Widnes. Big difference.