Fucking Council Tax Single Person Penalty

[Honper]

Or: why should I pay 50% more tax than my neighbours?

Council tax is a regressive abomination anyway and ofc like everyone else I resent paying it so my useless council can spend thousands on things like Tree Stories Near You or Four Foot Long Cycle Path Initiatives while failing to patch potholes so big that geese nest in them but still. As a single person I have a very particular axe to grind wrt paying 50% more TAX than someone in a couple.

I know that single life is more expensive, economies of scale yadda yadda and I already pay out proportionally more from my wages for bills, food and so on. I get that and it's not great but it's how it is.

But why is my tax liability so much greater than that of my married neighbours? I pay 50% more tax than each of them.

Come on, that's not right is it? It's not a bill. It's a tax. Single people's tax burden should not be so much more.

Or should it? AIBU?

How does a lodger work in a one bed flat?

You know it's not just for bin collections, right?

@ouch321 why are you paying for a commercial waste collection? Residential blocks of flats don't have to do that. We certainly don't and we have four of those massive euro bins.

Well, technically you could sleep on a sofa bed and put a lodger in the bedroom. I lived in a flat where the couple did that and rented out all three bedrooms. Not many people would be willing to do that though!