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Council tax payers to pay £25k to promote TIF and Toll Tax


24/ 7/2008

ADDITIONAL tax-payers' money will be used to publicise the Transport Innovation Fund (TIF) bid.

Members of Rochdale Council Cabinet voted to use £25,000 from the pressures fund to raise awareness of the TIF bid to bring £2.8bn in public transport improvements in return for setting up congestion charging.

This is in addition to £3M the Association of Greater Manchester Authorities have already earmarked for advertising, meetings, research and to deliver a consultation brochure to every house in Manchester.

The money, agreed by Rochdale Council Cabinet at its meeting on 3 July, is to be used for a 'information and awareness raising campaign' in the local area, which will be undertaken in conjunction with Oldham Council.

Cabinet members agreed to spend the money with the purpose of raising public awareness about the TIF proposals to ensure all 'citizens of the borough are fully informed about the proposals and able to participate fully in the debate and consultation exercise and any future poll'.

While agreeing to spend the money, cabinet members were informed money could only be used to provide information on the TIF bid in 'an objective, balanced, informative and accurate way'.


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   Local Authorities are reported as having a total of £1bn tied up in the failed banks of Iceland. Some reports are suggesting that if this money is never returned, then the council tax payer will have to pay again to cover this loss. Since its introduction, council tax has always risen annually by more than both the rate of inflation and average earnings. It is on target to triple to over £25bn by 2009. Local Authorities have continually received ever increasing real term amounts of tax payer's money and clearly have too much - hence the £1bn investment they have been able to make. No longer will council tax payers' believe that they are "cash strapped". Government and Local Authorities are both accountable to the electorate. Council tax payers have been exploited for over 10 years now. Gordon Brown says that he will do whatever is needed to help hard working families. He can start by making a binding promise that council tax payers will not be expected to pay again for any loss that may result from this crisis
CT Dooley, Heywood
19/11/2008 at 12:57
   What will happen when the council taxpayer runs out of money? Many thousands already have to make hard choices when managing their meagre incomes. The economic climate is certainly not going to get better or easier in the short term. It has been said many times already that the current level of council tax has reached its limit of acceptability. Another year of inflation busting increases may see history repeating itself as all peaceful means of encouraging the Government to reform local authority funding and to make it fairer have simply been ignored and treated with utter contempt.
B Eliingsworth, Heywood
18/11/2008 at 11:15
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