{"id":72177,"date":"2025-02-17T09:58:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T09:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=72177"},"modified":"2025-02-17T09:58:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T09:58:34","slug":"poorest-uk-households-pay-rising-share-of-income-on-council-tax-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/02\/17\/poorest-uk-households-pay-rising-share-of-income-on-council-tax-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Poorest UK households pay rising share of income on council tax, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1zaOhM.img?w=534&amp;h=320&amp;m=6\" alt=\"The poorest fifth of households paid 4.8% of their income on council tax or domestic rates in 2020-21, up from 2.9% in 2002-03. Photograph: Martin Godwin\/The Guardian\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s poorest households are paying an increasing share of their income on council tax, according to new analysis that likened it to the poll tax that contributed to the downfall of Margaret Thatcher. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/poorest-uk-households-pay-rising-share-of-income-on-council-tax-study-finds\/ar-AA1zazR2?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=91032dc7be264689e2c9800914451cc8&amp;ei=84\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Britain\u2019s poorest households are paying an increasing share of their income on council tax, according to new analysis that likened it to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-72177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cost-of-living-crisis"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/social-housing2.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72178,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72177\/revisions\/72178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}