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| UK taxmen collect 1 million home photos |
| 2007-05-29 |
| More than one million photographs of hundreds of thousands of homes have been taken by council tax inspectors, it emerged yesterday. The photographs are stored on a massive central database kept by the Valuation Office Agency, ministers disclosed. Council tax bills have gone up, on average, by more than 80 per cent since Tony Blair came to power in 1997. |
| Posted by:Seafarious |
| #4 Italy too, outside is just a brick wall, inside is gorgeous. Beeeen there, seen it. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2007-05-29 17:37 |
| #3 It's funny that the UK is going the way of old Spain, which for long had a window and appearance tax. That is why still today, in Mexico and much of central and South America, from the outside buildings and their grounds look cruddy and cheap. The people put everything nice inside. So I guess this could be called an "uglyfication program." |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-05-29 13:34 |
| #2 check out Chicago's assessor site. You plug in an addy and the house's info w/pic shows up. |
| Posted by: anonymous2u 2007-05-29 11:39 |
| #1 Doesn't know how to use Google map? Fine sat photo of my place and a heck of a lot of others on line there. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2007-05-29 08:52 |