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Scot referendum used to chase 300 million quid from poll tax cheats
Rastus Pieface
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oh dear. it looks like the scottish referendum on independence had an unexpected turn up. due to the record amount of people who registered to vote, councils are using this info to chase unpaid tax.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2774625/Huge-turnout-Scottish-referendum-used-chase-missing-300MILLION-poll-tax-cheats-registered-vote-time-two-decades.html
a case of unintended consequences?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2774625/Huge-turnout-Scottish-referendum-used-chase-missing-300MILLION-poll-tax-cheats-registered-vote-time-two-decades.html
a case of unintended consequences?
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Unless effort has been made to reclaim the debt, in which case the clock is reset.
Glad this is happening, couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch the funny thing about the supposedly hated poll tax is that the Tories increased their vote share and seats in Scotland at the election immediately after it was introduces....
Excellent news. There is nothing worse than people not contributing their fair share to society.
i agree.
Aberdeen voted NO
(and across the Scottish region) :cool:
As the saying goes, no good deed goes unpunished.
We decided it was probably unethical for them to be arrested on the way into vote, but fine to get them on the way out.
It will most certainly demonstrate to every other place in Scotland exactly why they ditched the nasty *********** (imagine your own expletive).
Whatever the rights and wrongs of the Community Charge (a.k.a "Poll Tax" as I hear some people call it) and the way it was implemented, it's still right that everyone should be liable for taxes which are legally passed. The are lots of taxes I don't like paying and enjoy grumbling about but I don't cheat on them.
Mystic Ovalteenie :cool:
& alaninmcr
What should that demonstrate to every other place in Scotland exactly?
Good stuff!
So the Scottish government want to make it illegal for councils to collect legally owed tax?
Bizarre.
what a man.
still looking out for the people of Scotland.
The people that didn't pay their poll tax!!! yeah what a man
When do i get my refund?
Yep. Can you imagine if Scottish Labour or Scottish Tories were in power - "London HQ, is it ok if we do this or that? Pretty please?"
"No, you're on a leash and you'll act in our Westminster interests..."
Do you remember the troubles? It doesn't need regurgitated.
You have to get over your Salmond/SNP hate, they do a good job for Scotland with no overseers from London HQs pulling the party strings.
I do remember the troubles, but the majority of people, including me, paid the tax due.
I'm sure Alex will be working on getting the majority of us a refund though ;-)
Those councils no doubt spent on something really worthwhile a long time ago... ;-)
I'm not sure it was legal in its first year in Scotland, when it didn't apply to the rest of the UK. That breached the Act of Union, which states that Scotland will never be subject to a tax not common to the entire UK. The excuse of the government at the time was that the Community Charge was not a tax, but a means of financing local government, which is as ridiculous as saying that income tax isn't a tax but a means of financing central government.
It'll be interesting if someone in Scotland disputes paying by claiming the tax was illegal. They may even say its early introduction in Scotland made it illegal throughout its life.