Reply #2: indirectly it does [View All]

[sweetheart]

I suspect that this is extremely common, and a significant contributor
to the disenfranchisement of young adults especially. As in life, it
is young adults who move around to new houses and with flatmates, settling
down increasingly in old age towards a static council tax billing
status. In youth, the changing addresses could oblige several landlords
over a year. As well, in youth, one has less money, and this means
squeezing finances a bit, so why upgrade a council tax bill if you don't
have to.

I'd wager that its a bunch of stupid reasons like the drugs war and
things like this that explain why younger adults are so put off by the
political "dialogue".

I don't see this as tax evasion. Something about the council tax on
poor persons is regressive. I'm actually suprised that labour has not
performed a comprehensive reform of the tax system ending the regressive
tax for an even more realistic progressive system than Mr. Brown's
current one (one that doesn't run up the credit card.)