Council Rates Rip Off?
I was having a whinge on Fa*****k about the extortionate council rates I was paying of nearly $300 (£150) a quarter which worked out at over $3 (£1.50) a day. It seems a lot to borrow a library book, go to a swimming pool, have someone collect your garbage and maintain the local roads.
My brother who lives in Macclesfield (someone has to
) chimed in saying he would pay my rates if I paid his. He said his rates worked out at £5.85 ($12) a day.
Is this true? are UK rates really that high?
We are always being told that economies of scale lead to cheaper rates and I suspect the UK councils have much bigger populations than here and perhaps some council business is carried on by the state government here (funded by GST revenue) but even so paying four times the rates seems unbelievable to me.
NB: I liked Macclesfield when I visited a couple of years ago