In a society with not enough houses for everyone, it's easy to see how the government might want to incentivise people sharing houses.
On Radio 4 the other week there was a discussion about people who had stopped cohabiting because the benifits for living singly (one assumes single parent benefit, as well as some council tax stuff?) were worth about 5K to them, which was a sizable proportion of their total income. Tax shouldn't drive people to not live with their kid when they want to...
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Date: 2007-07-26 01:55 pm (UTC)On Radio 4 the other week there was a discussion about people who had stopped cohabiting because the benifits for living singly (one assumes single parent benefit, as well as some council tax stuff?) were worth about 5K to them, which was a sizable proportion of their total income. Tax shouldn't drive people to not live with their kid when they want to...