It may come as a surprise to many city and county council taxpayers that there are a large percentage of properties in the city that pay no council tax.
These are the houses that are fully occupied by Brookes and Oxford University students.
The landlords of these houses (mainly ex-council houses), for some strange reason, are exempt from paying this tax.
Many of these landlords own several of these houses and it seems unfair that council taxpayers are obliged to pay for the dustbins to be emptied, police services and many other services that these non-payers enjoy.
I believe this anomaly should be sorted out quickly.
It must be unjust that genuine council taxpayers, some very low paid and pensioners, are having to bear the cost of these non-payers.
Perhaps our MPs, councillors or even some of the landlords might wish to explain this very unfair anomaly.
M Sharpe
Oxford
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