Rain tax

[DimPrawn]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8279467.stm

FFS, do they never give up?

[Tarquin Farquhar]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8279467.stm

FFS, do they never give up?

1. Surface drainage charges are NOT a tax, so stop frothing at the mouth about ZaNuLabour taxing to death etc etc etc... They are commercial charges for a service provided.

2. Drainage DOES cost money, and it is the water companies that provide the service and charge the cost.

3. Rain DOES fall on churches and scout halls just as much as on houses and businesses, and needs just the same drainage.

4. But the charities don't like paying their share, so they should be let off (with the rest of us carrying their costs)?

Can someone explain part 4 please?

[NotAllThere]

Sure - commercial premises pay less than scout huts. They're making money from their businesses. If you tax the scout huts, then the scouts sell their huts, because they can't afford to keep them, and your tax take is reduced. Or, to put it another way, there's no point in taxing people who don't have money. Far better to pile the charge onto businesses, don'tcha know?

Charities are helping the local community for nowt, so why shouldn't the local community support them. It's all about "fairness".

Any, the government are abolishing this tax, rather than bringing it in. It was an idea from Offtwat.

[Tarquin Farquhar]

Sure - commercial premises pay less than scout huts. They're making money from their businesses. If you tax the scout huts, then the scouts sell their huts, because they can't afford to keep them, and your tax take is reduced. Or, to put it another way, there's no point in taxing people who don't have money. Far better to pile the charge onto businesses, don'tcha know?

Charities are helping the local community for nowt, so why shouldn't the local community support them. It's all about "fairness".

Any, the government are abolishing this tax, rather than bringing it in. It was an idea from Offtwat.

Tax? Tax? What tax??

If you want to operate a church or scout hall, then you must pay the costs associated with it. If you use electricity in it, you must pay the electricity bill. If you use water, you must pay the water bill. If you use drainage, you must pay the drainage bill.

You say "Charities are helping the local community for nowt, so why shouldn't the local community support them." But the water company is not the local community, it's a business; and a church or scout group is not a charity that I must feel obliged to support: let the congregation or the scout hut users pay their own bills, don't lobby for me to pay them, directly or indirectly (as would be the case if their bills were waived).

[NotAllThere]

Another sock puppet.

[Tarquin Farquhar]

Another sock puppet.

Another argumentum ad hominem.

[BlackenedBiker]

another day

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another dollar

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another dollar

500 dollars.

[Sysman]

Another end of month.

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