Budget next week

Aspen Second homes are now going to have to pay full council tax for the first time I beleive so that is a step in the right direction.

Flick I think the mansion tax was propsed to start at £2.0 million so even in the souteast that is a lot of house!

I do wonder about the potholes, I thought the council were obliged to fill them if we notified them but perhaps someone else knows if that is true? Our roads are pretty good but as soon as we go over the border into the next county they are dreadful. It is always difficult to know whether the council is really short of cash or whether they are just bad at housekeeping. If one can manage why can't the one next door?

Triple the tax on second homes.

Not a mansion tax, but extra tax bands above the current Council tax bands to take in houses valued up to £2.5 million. Many of us live who live in the south east have houses that have rocketed in value since we bought them but we do not have the income to pay a 1% tax levy on the capital value of them every year as suggested by Vince Cable.

I would be prepared to pay a bit more Council Tax for the council to spend more money on repairing the roads. DD's car had to have over a hundred £s of repairs done to her car after a wheel of it dropped into a deep water filled pothole. There have been news stories of small businesses like taxi companies having to pay a fortune to repair damaged shock absorbers as a result of severely potholed roads.

But that would be sexist Jess .

I would be happy to tax sugary drinks as well. I don't drink them and neither do my GSs and they make people fat!

Double the price of cigarettes, to pay for.... drum roll....
Subsidised course fees for university courses in subjects like physics, chemistry, biology, computer programming and some branches of engineering. With double subsidies for women in these subsidies to redress the imbalance.

Double the tax on people who live in expensive areas of Birmingham who keep on about care, housing and tax!

Good idea - pointless and a complete waste of resources.

I would put a high tax on bottled water because we keep hearing that it is safer to drink tap water so it is non essential.