Politically, I think even just the name is a problem it's worth fixing. So many people I meet now say "why am I paying council tax when the council doesn't seem to do anything for me"
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These same (polite, sensible, middle class type) people are perfectly happy to pay income tax when they actually barely engage with the state. Yet call it a *council* tax and it focuses minds on "what are they doing for me?"
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(Not the most important problem to be clear but I think an additional reason to focus on it)
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I think it's naming the tax after what it funds rather than what's being taxed. Makes it seem like a sort of netflix subscription. See also the licence fee.
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