Cornwall's council tax discount for second homes under threat
An interesting proposal from a group of Conservative and Independent councillors will be debated next week:
"....it would be unjust to allow second home concessions to continue; thus the Council resolves that; a) Group Leaders make representations, in writing, to the minister to remove the present second homes council tax discount and endorse theSecond home owners currently enjoy a 10% discount.
use of the additional revenue for new and additional affordable homes..."
Comment number 1.
At 30th Jun 2011, marhak wrote:When that concession was reduced from 50% to 90%, that was precisely what we were told the additional revenue would fund. Very little of it did, so what guarantee have we that, this time, it will be used to alleviate the massive housing problems faced by Cornish people? Naturally, I support the proposal. In fact, I believe that second-home council tax rates should rise to 150%, with that of permanent residents reduced, in order to partially compensate us for subsidising the wealthy for all too many decades.
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Comment number 2.
At 30th Jun 2011, Cornishinquisitor wrote:Who is the 鈥渨e鈥 and 鈥渦s鈥 you keep referring towards Craig, you are one person, you have no political mandate or been voted by anyone, just give your single opinion and move along and stop acting as if you are the leader of Cornish men, you are one as in the singular, even if you got the other 11 you would still only be 12 against half a million.
Your vision of being Cornish and Cornish politics is not a popular one in truth, this is all a waste of everyones time and changes nothing
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Comment number 3.
At 30th Jun 2011, Saltashgaz wrote:In my experience the types of people who have second homes are not going to be significantly bothered about a 10% increase, but increasing the rate does make monitoring them more difficult, as the only legal reason to declare a second home is for this reduction, it is not a crime to own more than one home as a few of those from the more remote parts of Cornish society think, again as for the fruity idea of increasing the rate beyond 100%, would actually see them declare the Cornish second home as there first homes, these are not stupid people
Like most ideas based around second home owners, people are not thinking things through and just want to spite the invading forces by any means possible, overlooking this invading force is the majority, not that I like this and it is only going to get worse given the ruling on Carolyn bay by the same council, who are the council kidding. IF they cared Carolyn bay would be given back to the people of Cornwall
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Comment number 4.
At 1st Jul 2011, P_Trembath wrote:This comment has been referred for further consideration. Explain.
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