Should single-person households get council tax discounts? What Yahoo readers think
Yahoo UK's poll of the week lets you vote and indicate your strength of feeling on one of the week's hot topics. After 72 hours the poll closes and, each Friday, we'll publish and analyse the results, giving readers the chance to see how polarising a topic has become and if their view chimes with other Yahoo UK readers.
The government has not ruled out scrapping the single-person council tax discount – but Yahoo readers think it should remain.
Earlier this week deputy PM and housing secretary Angela Rayner confirmed that there are no plans to increase English council taxes, but she declined to say whether she would scrap the single person discount to the bill.
Under questioning in the Commons, Rayner said it was "astonishing" that after "running down the economy" while in government, the Tories were trying to claim Labour are "about raising taxes".
She said: “This government is about making sure that working people are better off and we’ll intend to do that."
Yahoo News UK asked our readers whether the discount should remain; here are the results:
Our poll from Monday at midday until midday Thursday asked: 'Should single-person households get discounts?'
It received 11,086 votes and showed more than eight in 10 Yahoo readers think they should.
Some 85% of people voted yes in answer to the question, with just 10.8% voting no and 4.3%s saying they were undecided.
85% of readers voted yes
Yahoo News UK readers were also asked: 'How unfair is it that single person households pay more?' on a scale of
This poll received 5,543 votes with the most common vote being 10, indicating many readers feel strongly about the issue.
The average strength-of-feeling score on all the votes was 8.02
This poll received 5,543 votes with the most common vote being 10
Our original poll article can be found here.
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