Payback binned

Government ditches plans to refund tax for poor services

ANGER - Caroline Spelman

Give me a second chance, says PM

Gordon Brown urges Labour supporters not to switch sides.

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14/02/2010

THE Government has ditched plans to give people council tax refunds for poor services.

Ministers said in 2008 that they would give £50 shopping vouchers or £10 cash for botched street repairs or missed bin collections.

But nothing has come of it despite them spending £114,000 of taxpayers' money reviewing the proposals.

The Government has proclaimed it was axed as it was "low on the motivator radar".

Shadow Local Government Secretary Caroline Spelman said: "This is yet another example of Gordon Brown spinning empty promises to frustrated taxpayers and failing to deliver."

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