Across Great Britain, working-class communities and ordinary families are being squeezed dry by a local tax system that is completely detached from modern reality. Council Tax is fundamentally unfair, operating as a regressive municipal levy that shields the multi-millionaire class while placing an entirely disproportionate financial burden on low- and middle-income households.

The foundation of the entire system is completely broken:

     * Frozen in 1991: In England and Scotland, your Council Tax bill is still calculated based on what your property was worth on April 1, 1991. The state is relying on 35-year-old "drive-by" guesswork from moving cars to determine your modern bill. 
     * The Mansion Shield: The current system features a statutory cap where the highest bracket (Band H) is legally restricted to paying exactly double the rate of an average baseline home (Band D). This compression creates an absurd double standard. A family living in a modest £100,000 terraced home frequently faces an effective annual tax rate of well over 1% of their entire property value. Meanwhile, an oligarch or hedge-fund executive owning a £10 million mega-mansion in an affluent borough enjoys an effective tax rate of just 0.03%.Independent data from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) reveals the brutal human cost of this math: the poorest tenth of the UK population surrender an average of 8% of their entire income to Council Tax, while the richest see their bills absorb a mere 2% to 3% of their earnings. As central government funding has been stripped away, local authorities have been forced to repeatedly jack up bills on struggling households just to keep social care and basic waste management from collapsing. This drains vital liquidity straight out of local businesses and high streets, essentially recycling poverty within our towns.

We are demanding an immediate, comprehensive modernisation of local property taxation to bring fairness back to our communities:

     * Abolish the 1991 Banding System: Immediately discard the outdated, fictional 1991 property valuations and mandate a full, independent nationwide revaluation.
Remove the Millionaire Cap: Eradicate the compressed, unfair banding caps that legally shield luxury estates and multi-million-pound mansions from paying their fair share.
     * Transition to a Proportional Property Tax: Replace the broken Council Tax structure with a flat, proportional tax based on up-to-date, real-world asset values, shifting the burden off struggling renters and ordinary working families.

Running our local revenue on fictional data from the 1990s isn't just poor administration; it is a systemic transfer of the national tax burden onto those who can least afford it. It is time to call time on the 1991 time capsule and deliver genuine high-street tax justice. 
Sign this petition to demand change. Let's work together towards a fairer tax system that reflects our society's values of fairness, justice, and support for all its members.

Together, we can make a difference and create a sustainable future for ourselves and generations to come.