Reply to: Council tax bill

[Zippy]

Aberdeen council are basically bust as well, they are asking for hand outs from the goverment and are in real problems.

Glasgow finances are a real mess as well, our latest Lord Provest (mayor) was doing a bit of coke and got in with a bad set.

Ahh yes. Easily done that ...

[SueEllen]

What's all this 'Band' stuff? Why do people in one 'band' pay more? Is this some kind of income redistribution?

Smells like socialism to me. We don't really do socialism in eastern Holland.

The bigger (or more expensive your house was to buy in 1991) the more you pay.

The average property is band D.

However if you live in an area with 4 councils, loads of students or one that doesn't tend to elect Labour/Tory councillors then you tend to end up with a large council tax bill regardless of the "value" of your property.

[Moscow Mule]

What's all this 'Band' stuff? Why do people in one 'band' pay more? Is this some kind of income redistribution?

Smells like socialism to me. We don't really do socialism in eastern Holland.

Its like "rateable value". Bigger houses pay more.

[Mich the Tester]

What's all this 'Band' stuff? Why do people in one 'band' pay more? Is this some kind of income redistribution?

Smells like socialism to me. We don't really do socialism in eastern Holland.

[minestrone]

Aberdeen council are basically bust as well, they are asking for hand outs from the goverment and are in real problems.

Glasgow finances are a real mess as well, our latest Lord Provest (mayor) was doing a bit of coke and got in with a bad set.

[Zippy]

That is depressing.

[minestrone]

Yes, the Scotsman...

linkoids

Great quote at the end, depressing really.

THE trustees of a mothballed school have been saddled with an £80,000 gas bill after the building's full heating system was left on for 18 months after it closed, despite only a skeleton staff remaining there.

More than 100 staff were made redundant 18 months ago when Oakbank residential school in Aberdeen was closed because of financial problems.

But it was revealed that the main heating boiler at the school had been left running while the skeleton st
ADVERTISEMENTaff was still working in the empty building.

And a leaked e-mail suggested that the money had "literally been burnt" since the closure.

Scottish and Southern Energy wrote to trustees earlier this month, warning them that SSE planned to apply for a warrant to disconnect the gas supply because of an unpaid gas bill of £81,512.

The trustees are understood to have questioned the size of the bill they faced.

But the board's lawyer, David McLeod, stated in a letter to the trustees: "The only explanation he (the SSE representative) could think of is that it is an old boiler which runs the heating system and the heating system has been kept running for the entire building throughout the period since the school closed.

"If this is correct, then this debt represents a very substantial sum which has literally been burnt."

[minestrone]

Crikey Minestrone. Which newspaper was that in?

I think I read it in the Scotsman first off but I knew the story and searched for it and came up with some aberdeen paper...

hold on I'll search

[Zippy]

Crikey Minestrone. Which newspaper was that in?

[minestrone]

It's amazing what you have to pay on a yearly basis for shoddy services.

Yup.


Empty school hit with £80,000 heating bill

Oakbank School in Aberdeen was closed 18 months ago but has still been running its boiler.

The trustees of a mothballed school have been hit with an £80,000 gas bill because they kept the heating on after it shut.

Oakbank residential school in Aberdeen has been virtually empty for the past 18 months after being shut amid spiralling debts.

The facility was shut due to spiralling costs – with only two members of the former 104-strong workforce left behind to complete administrative work.

However, board vice-chairman Alan Donnelly said the bill is “more than two years old”

“We had staff there. We had to keep the place water-tight and look after their welfare and part of the heating has done that

We just have to get this thread running for about 3 years to pay for that...

[norrahe]

*ping*

That's the bell wringing in some goverment office.

Congrats everyone, it has taken you 5 pages to pay off one council's donation to a gay theatre group's monthly heating bill.

Eurasia! Eurasia!

It's amazing what you have to pay on a yearly basis for shoddy services.

[minestrone]

*ping*

That's the bell wringing in some goverment office.

Congrats everyone, it has taken you 5 pages to pay off one council's donation to a gay theatre group's monthly heating bill.

Eurasia! Eurasia!

[norrahe]

1400 odd

[Zippy]

Two grand.
It reminds me of a joke which I would get banned for if I repeated it here

[PRC1964]

Band H: - £2884.22

Borough council get £318.14, police get £387.72 and the county council pocket a tasty £2178.36