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12 March 2013

A council tax isn’t a wealth tax

How should the government settle the inequalities in property wealth?

By Alex Hern

Very important, this one: the council tax isn’t a wealth tax. That’s a claim I’ve seen repeated around the place with relative frequency recently, most notably in Polly Toynbee’s Guardian column today. She writes:

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