Council tax is the same, £1000 CT for my house and all we get is a rubbish collection once every two weeks. My council does run a recycling scheme but oh wait, we have not got a recycling bin because although we have asked, the council has not delivered one! What excellent customer service the british consumer gets from their government!
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Bins emptied...
we're lucky if we even get that, the council keep forgetting to do ours. They're supposed to come every week but didn't turn up for 3 weeks once and couldn't care less. I said "so what I am paying council tax for and I want to stop paying it until you pick up the bins" they turned round and said "stop paying your council tax if you want to but we'll prosecute you"
If we don't get what we pay for be it Council Tax or Road Tax, the government/council don't care, but as soon as we stop paying, they fine us.
Nothing we can do though I suppose apart from think ourselves lucky that we don't fall into band G and get totally hammered.
Hope they don't decide to change the banding and hammer us as well...