Council tax rise anger
I picked up my copy of the Post, looked at the front page and thought, here we go again, yet another round of increases with the same trite excuses.
However, the part that really rankled is that the precept for Market Weighton is not to rise because after properly calculating expenditure against income the town council has concluded the extra contribution from new homes already pays the modest two per cent rise in costs.
The house owners of Pocklington, a similar town with just as many new homes, are however to pay three per cent more on the rather flimsy excuse that the increase is needed to help fund a few car park lights and some pointing to brick work.
To be frank, the three per cent increase looks like a figure simply plucked out of the air with no real justification and no empathy with the council tax payers on fixed and low incomes already struggling to pay this unpopular, unfair and discriminatory tax.
H Hawley
Pocklington
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Last Updated:
28 February 2008 8:04 AM
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