Now Brown is to tax people with nice neighbours: Knowledge Driven Revolution

HAVING good neighbours could cost you dear in council tax under Labour’s secret plans to slap higher charges on respectable communities.

The Government has invested in the latest computer technology to create a new database of the best and worst neighbourhoods in England.

The information will be factored into council tax valuations – meaning homeowners will not only pay for the quality of their own property but those around them.

Living in quiet, clean streets with well behaved neighbours could mean higher charges. Low crime rates and catchment areas for good schools will also be part of a “locality adjustment factor” influencing tax bills.

Northern Ireland Minister David Hanson has revealed that complex community analysis will be used in Northern Ireland when rates in the province are revalued next April.

The Valuation and Lands Agency, which will carry out the revaluation, has bought a system called “Spatialest” Computer Assisted Mass Appraisal Software to review 700,000 homes in the province.

Its manufacturers say it offers a “unique approach to property appraisal” that allows valuers to include location as “one of the most important factors”.

The English version of “intelligent proximity analysis” will also make “location, location, location” a key when the postponed revaluation takes place.

Major advances in computer speed and capacity will, for the first time, allow the Government to create a database that not only stores significant details of England’s 22,000,000 homes but also creates community clusters.

Ministers have spent more than Ł50,000 on “geo-demographic” lifestyle information for every home in England to be fed into the database.

This will determine the size of each “neighbourhood” for tax purposes and will create a complex picture of 287 community details, from the average income of those living in the area to the numbers cohabiting.

Most controversially, ethnicity will also be a factor with “multi-ethnic crowded flats” being one of the details to be stored.

Caroline Spelman, Shadow Secretary of State for Local Government, warned: “There is growing alarm about the Labour Government’s use of Big Brother computers to increase taxes. First they want to log and record every feature of your home, from double glazing to the number of bedrooms.

“Next they want clipboard-wielding bureaucrats to have the right to inspect your home. Now Labour intends to tax you not just for every home improvement but also for the neighbourhood you live in.

“This is the hallmark of an oppressive and greedy government finding ever more stealthy ways to tax working families and pensioners and trampling over privacy when it suits them.”

The latest twist in Labour’s “home invasion” comes just weeks after the Government completed its database with details of every home in England. Everything from the size of your patio to the view from your window is now stored.

The Tories also warn the database paves the way for Gordon Brown to be able to introduce a new tax on home sales.

A second database, called Oracle Nine, is storing unlimited digital images that capture our properties from every angle.

More than half a million pictures have been taken without the knowledge or permission of homeowners, who have no powers under the Human Rights Act to stop the snooping.

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