THE letter from Patched Pants (Dear Star, March 30) regarding the payment of Council Tax made very interesting reading and was high on percentages.

So high in fact that most of the figures quoted were over-stated and the central argument was based on assumption that all who dwell in band H are big-time lottery winners.

The poll tax, now dead and buried, was the fairest tax but too expensive and unworkable.

We all receive the same council services, rich or poor, working or not.

It should be the Government which redistributes wealth, i.e. via income tax, not local or even metropolitan councils.

Patched Pants might be asking this council why it is placed in the number 11 spot of the most expensive (based on band D) in the United Kingdom?

POOR pensioner (name and address supplied).

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