Families face ‘double whammy’ of bin taxes and council tax – Deborah Dunleavy

Families across Bolton face the prospect of new bin taxes on top of council tax, Deborah Dunleavy, Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Bolton North East warned today.. After confusion in Whitehall, Labour Ministers have finally confirmed that new taxes for bin collections will go ahead.

It is currently against the law for town halls to charge for standard collections of household rubbish. In July, a cross-party Parliamentary Committee savaged the bin tax plans, warning of more fly-tipping, neighbourhood bin wars, non-payment by the public; it said that the plans would raise the overall burden of taxation.

News of higher taxes comes as new official figures published by the Government have exposed that fly-tipping across England is soaring. InBolton, incidents of fly tipping have increased by 6% to 3642 between 2006 and this year. In total, cleaning up after fly-tipping across Boltonhas cost local taxpayers £705,548over the last three years. The Keep Britain Tidy campaign is warning that new bin taxes will make the problem even worse.

Deborah said:

“Bin taxes would harm the local environment and public health by leading to a surge in fly-tipping and backyard burning. The set-up and running costs of such a complex tax, installing microchips in every bin, will mean the overall burden of taxation will rise. Families now face the double whammy of record council tax bills and new bin taxes.

“Yet the soaring costs of waste are yet another example of how Whitehall and EU burdens are being imposed on (local council). The answer is not to create new local taxes. Labour Ministers must stop imposing unfunded obligations and red tape on local communities and cease hiking up local taxes by stealth.”

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