Can anyone give me a reason why?

Question

I should not get a council tax rebate for wednesday and thursday next week. My council tax is £19 a week and the council workers are going on strike so surely as i will not be recieving the services i am paying for i should get around a £5 rebate.

Answer 1

Beacuse you will not be directly effected by the strike action

any action that results in lost services will be caught up with

it's not the council's fault that it's workers are on strike and it stil has you pay all it's bills

with holding money would in effect be supporting the strike and force the council to reach agreement with the unions that may otherwise not have happended.

No life and limb services will be affected

The council looosing money would make the whole sitaution worse as they would be behind budget and facing incraesed workers demands

lastly most council workers work very hard for you week in and week out with little reward for doing so

Answer 2

The workers who are striking are not getting paid for Wednesday and Thursday - they are in breach of their working contract by failing to turn up for work, therefore their employer will not pay them.

That doesn't affect you paying your council tax, and you will only get in debt by trying it. Most people will only know there was a strike because it was on TV and in the papers. Essential council services that affect the well being of citizens were exempt from strike action, such as life line respondents, and grave diggers etc.

Answer 3

lets all pay taxs but deduct 2 days

Answer 4

IT SHOULD COME DIRECTLY OUT OF THE POCKETS OF THE LAZY WORKERS WHO ARE STRIKING.

Answer 5

you would think you would but council love money

Answer 6

The Councils only get about 13p in the pound, the rest goes towards education, police, fire brigade, social services, leisure services, benefits etc.

Im curious as what services you think you wont be getting ? it's more likely to be a case of maybe your bin collection getting delayed by a couple of days.

Your 'services' wont be affected; if your house catches fire, the fire brigade will still come, if your mugged, the police will still deal with it. The schools wont be closing

I used to work in a Local Authority Revenues department and we used to get narrow minded rants like yours all of the time. There were a few stock responses but most of the time it comes down to "it's the law, you have to pay it. You may pontificate all you like about fairness and legality, but until Parliament repeals it, it will remain the law and you still have to pay it" Death and tax - the two sure things in life !!

Quick question - did you boycott Shell petrol when their drivers went on strike ?.