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I Didn't Realise That "in Your Face Taxes" Was a Widely Used Term.

Posted on the 09 April 2015 by Markwadsworth @Mark_Wadsworth

I pinged off my submission to The [Scottish] Commission of Local Tax Reform, which they have put online here.
Out of interst, I read the first submission by Kenneth McKay, which merrily demolishes The Poor Widow Bogey thusly:
14... Arguments against Domestic Rates and property-based taxation in general have included that tax liability should be based on income rather than the value of property occupied and the classic comparison between a widow living alone with 4 adults living next door which brought us the Poll Tax. There are in fact very few households consisting of 4 adults!
15. Although there is not a direct link between house values and income there is reasonable correlation...

But what cheered me up most was his description of Council Tax, Domestic Rates etc. as "in your face" tax in para 12.
I always assumed that we on this blog had coined this term, perhaps not after all.


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