Cambridge Tax Freeze?

Cambridgeshire County Council Tax Freeze proposal by UKIP . Posted on February 14. On Tuesday 14th February Cllr Bullen, Leader of the UKIP group on Cambridgeshire County Council presented an alternative budget amendment for Cambridgeshire that achieves a tax freeze for Cambridgeshire residents. This will make UKIP the only Party in Cambridgeshire proposing a tax freeze.

Whilst the UKIP proposal will deliver a 0% tax rise for Cambridgeshire tax payers, It is anticipated that the Cambridgeshire Conservatives will propose a 2% Tax rise, Liberal Democrats will propose a 4% tax rise, and Labour will propose a 5% tax rise for Cambridgeshire residents.

Cllr Bullen says “Some of the Political Groups in Cambridgeshire will be trying to deceive the people of Cambridgeshire by claiming the tax rises they are demanding are not tax rises because the Tory Government has allowed them to call it an “Adult Social Care Precept”. The deception is bad enough that these groups are suggesting this is not a tax rise (when it clearly is), this deception is worse in that none of this ‘social care precept’ has been used on increasing the social care budget in Cambridgeshire at all.