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Kingston council tax confirmed London's highest (From Kingston Guardian)
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Beverley RAI don't supose you have ever looked into how much grant Wandsworth gets from central Government compared to Kingston. The fact that Wandsworth gets a much bigger grant means that residents in Putney, Battersea, Balham - all those 'inner -city' so-called impoverished places get lower Council Tax bills. Swap the geographical locations of Wandsworth and Kingston and Kingston would have the lower bills. It's got nothing to do with the colour of the administration. I don't know why The Comet singularly fails to report this. I suppose it's old-fashioned bias.
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Kingston council tax confirmed London's highest
6:10am Monday 15th March 2010
Kingston’s 2.4 per cent council tax rise has been confirmed as the highest in London, and nearly double that of Bromley, which posted the second highest increase in the capital of 1.24 per cent.
Weeks from local elections across London, Kingston was one of just four local authorities to increase its element of the tax, with 24 freezing bills at least year’s level and five cutting them by as much as 3 per cent.
Most band D households in the borough will pay £1,662.03, which represents a £32 increase on last year, while those living within three-quarters of a mile of Wimbledon and Putney commons will be charged £1,685.88.
The overall bill Kingston residents will pay from April will go up by 1.9 per cent, after Mayor of London Boris Johnson froze his element of council tax, which funds the Greater London Authority, for the second year running.
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