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Tax bill rise for Shrewsbury residents
Tuesday 31st January 2012, 12:29PM GMT.
Taxpayers in Shrewsbury will have to fork out an extra 6p a week for their town council after councillors backed a nine per cent rise in council tax.
From April, the authority will increase its Band D council band rate from £36.77 to £39.89 in a move which is set to raise about £950,000 in the next financial. The rise was backed at a meeting of the town council at the town’s Guildhall last night.
Tempers flared during budget discussions with Councillor Ioan Jones accusing the authority of using ‘smoke and mirrors’.
He disputed the fact that the council had expressed the rise in pence rather than percentage terms, which he claimed made it appear less steep.
But the town’s mayor, Councillor Tony Durnell, accused Mr Jones of ‘scaremongering.’
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this is the con trick of condem councils saying your council tax is frozen was false because town councils have been dumped with extra services and now they can raise the tax instead
Unitary was a con trick and barrows tax freeze is a con trick, the man in the street is paying more tax period, this is because of inefficiency at shire hall being covered up with extra charges and parish precepts rising
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“Unitary was a con trick…..” It certainly was. In order for it to have saved us anything all of the former District council offices should have been closed down and all services centralised at County Hall. As it is all of they have done is to change the signs over the door of places like Edinburgh House at Wem, formerly North Shropshire District Council, and its business as usual with all the same old faces in post.
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Wah heyyyy! The cardboard collection must be coming back!! They’ll be dancing in the streets of Coleham tonight…
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This is utterly disgraceful. Our Town Councillors have an allowance of £3,500 per annum.
This pointless role could be done for nothing as in other towns.
They are trying to take all the credit for the Market Hall when that has evolved through the work of others and as a result of the climate we are in, where so many young people are forced to live back at home with uni. debts to pay off.
We had the Unitary Option to get rid of the expensive two tier council we were told, so now we have County and Town Councillors instead of County and Borough Councillors and amazingly they managed to scoop a massive rise in allowances in the process.
They have only recently said that the Town Council coffers are financially in good order which can be readily seen by their expensive ego trips regarding forking out for design consultants for new accomodation like the proposal firstly in the Quarry then at the Bear Steps.These proposed, very expensive information points were to tell us how important and useful their role is.
The jiggery pokery that goes on with these longterm serving councillors has to be experienced first hand to believe it.
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Nice to see a Labour Councillor Jones for raising the fact the council used pence instead of percentage wich i think is 9%.
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Joy of joys, more money for the council gravy train.
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OMG that’s £266 a month and I’m not working. I see very little for my money. Cf when I lived in Nanwich where there was a very proud civic culture. Grrrr
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This from The Tax Payers Alliance website {www.taxpayersalliance.com} – “The equivalent of £1 in every £5 of council tax raised in the UK is spent on council pensions”. So glad I’m contributing to that new motorhome…
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The Taxpayers’ Alliance, far from being an alliance of ordinary taxpayers, is a group representing the interests of big business and the wealthy, founded by senior Tories and funded by contributions from wealthy busienssmen.
They regularly have a pop at the cost of public services, yet strangely never complain at all at the billions leeched away from our public finances by huge tax breaks offered to the wealthy.
So they really don’t represent the interests of the general taxpayer at all – their policies are all about cutting services to provide more money for tax breaks for the rich.
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Tax breaks for the wealthy? I’ve not heard this before, what’s going on??
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typical, these ars the same tory councillors who wasted a million pounds having the “slinky” built on the riverside.
the government is telling people to show restraint, cutting pensions,wages and benefits yet these concillors think they can just carry on trying to milk the system.
if the want to raise money they should cut their allowances and sell that white elephant council building in frankwell.
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Perhaps they are thinking about another work of art to go with “slinky” and the gherkin peeler at the top of Mardol.
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The day the Mardol monstrocity was unveiled a friend and I danced around it singing the theme tune to the Flintstones!
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Great. If I had have been there I would have joined you.
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Well, how else are they going to pay for the broadband in rural areas?
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