Andy Burnham hints at new approach to council tax – what could change?

New Prime Minister Andy Burnham suggested he wanted to make council tax fairer (Picture: Reuters) It’s hard to find anyone who really loves council tax – not the people who have to pay it, and not the people at the Treasury who decide how it works. Introduced in 1993, the tax is still based on the value of property all the way back in 1991. Those values have unsurprisingly shifted in different ways across the UK over the past 35 years, leading to a twisted system. For example, the housing demand in London has pushed up property prices much faster there than in the north-east of England. That has meant people in some of the wealthiest parts of the country pay a smaller proportion in council tax than those in some of the poorest. Speaking to the BBC, new Prime Minister Andy Burnham said the