Council Tax Debate
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Lord Wallace of Saltaire
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Council Tax
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Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab)
My Lords, the citizens of London had a chance to express their view in the recent election for the Mayor of London, and they did so resoundingly.
Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LD)
My Lords, are the Government turning their backs on the idea of tax reform for local government or as a whole? Of course it is time consuming, but tax reform is fundamentally important. We have an extremely complicated and unjust tax system. I declare an interest, as I have lived between Yorkshire and London for the last 40 years and, more years than not, I have paid higher council tax on a house in Bradford than in London. That is absurd and it is one of the things that tax reform ought to cope with.
Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab)
I can only reiterate my earlier statement: there are no current plans to reform council tax.