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by lozenge 2614 days ago
To put a number on it, band H properties are at least 8 times the value of a band A property, but pay only 3 times as much tax.

(From A POOR TAX COUNCIL TAX IN LONDON: TIME FOR REFORM, although the same info is on government websites).

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Council tax and poll tax before it were very clearly examples of trickle up taxes. Massively regressive compared to the rates.

Yet no one is complaining, demonstrating or rioting.

They did protest and riot, but the government ignored them.