If You Can’t Afford the Rent, It’s My Problem, Too

Re:If You Can’t Afford the Rent, It’s My Problem, Too by jen20 on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @10:43AM (#19501253)

The difference is what that funds. In the UK, council tax is intended to fund things like rubbish removal. In the US, property tax funds schools. Other taxes make up for the low “property” tax in the UK (property in quotes because renters pay it directly too - it is an occupancy tax not an ownership tax)

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Re:If You Can’t Afford the Rent, It’s My Problem, Too by sampo on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @10:49AM (#19501316)

Property taxes should be relative high, so the city gets their part of the increasing land value when the city grows. So that land owners get to collect only a small-ish part of the windfall of the increased value.

It is, after all, the city that made the land more valuable by building more city around it.

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Re:If You Can’t Afford the Rent, It’s My Problem, Too by C1sc0cat on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @11:07AM (#19501553)

Funds the council in general

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Re:If You Can’t Afford the Rent, It’s My Problem, Too by jen20 on Friday March 29, 2019 @06:20PM (#19526155)

Which deal with things like rubbish removal - UK councils are MUCH more limited in scope than US cities.

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