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home in England moving up a band would see a tax hike of £270 a year, on top of any other
increases. Mrs Spelman said:
"It's official - council tax revaluation has hiked council tax bills by stealth,
raising average bills by up to seven times the rate of inflation in the first year alone,
with further increases next year as relief is phased out. This destroys the Labour Party's
bogus claims that revaluation would be revenue neutral."
She told conservative.com: "It is
clear that Labour's third term tax rises include a ticking council tax bombshell, primed
to explode after the general election. Families and pensioners, whose only crime is to
live in an area with house price inflation, will face soaring bills without any
improvements in their local services."
She added: "Only Conservatives have
provided the opposition to this rigged revaluation - in contrast to the Liberal Democrats
who voted in Parliament to support Mr Blair's English and Welsh rigged revaluation."
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