PRESS RELEASE ISSUED BY THE ISITFAIR COUNCIL TAX PROTEST GROUP
For further press information, please contact: Christine Melsom on 01428-712680 or E-mail c@isitfair.co.uk

04 July 2009

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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ISITFAIR CAMPAIGN SAYS ITS TIME NOW FOR CAMERON TO APOLOGISE FOR COUNCIL TAX

David Cameron issued an apology on behalf of the Conservative Party for legislation banning the promotion of homosexuality in schools. He said the party had 'got it wrong' when it introduced Section 28 in the late 1980s.  Mr Cameron insisted he was making his apology because the legislation had been ' offensive to gay people'.

In 2006 the Scots received an apology for having the poll tax imposed on them a year before it was introduced in England.

On 2 July 2009 David Cameron promised to decentralise power and allow for real local discretion on spending in a speech to the Local Government Association Conference.

Isitfair now calls on Mr Cameron to apologise for the thoroughly discredited council tax system that was introduced by his party in 1993.  It too is offensive to council tax payers.  If he wants 'real local discretion on spending' then the local government funding system must be reformed as well.  It is too centralist and is open to political and regional discrimination.

Isitfair calls on Mr Cameron to immediately launch a review of the current method of local government funding, with the primary objective of changing the council tax system to be fair and based on ability to pay.

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For further press information, please contact: Christine Melsom on 01428-712680 or E-mail c@isitfair.co.uk

Issued by Isitfair Campaign, Headley, Hampshire GU35 8PJ


NOTES TO EDITOR

Isitfair is a UK-wide, non party-political campaign for the reform of the existing property-value based system of Council Tax. 

Isitfair wants a fairer system of taxation for local services that is related to everyone's ability to pay. 

Isitfair represents people of all age groups (not only pensioners) who are unfairly affected by Council Tax. 

You can find more information about the Isitfair campaign at www.isitfair.co.uk