From 1 April 2013, Council Tax Benefit will be replaced by a system of councils having discretion to decide how much to allow by way of discount to people who are on low incomes. Details supplied indicate that:

1) The maximum discount that will be given will be 90% of the bill.

2) Everyone, no matter how low their income, will have to pay at least 10% of their Council Tax Bill. Since few Council Tax bills are below £1000, this will result in those on low incomes seeing a large increase in the amount they pay. For those on very low incomes at present, Council Tax Benefit covers the liability in full.

3) Those on defined as having "very low" incomes, there are no figures of what this will be, will have to pay an unspecified amount which will be greater than 10% of their bill. This will no doubt mean a massive additional cost for the most impoverished and vulnerable people.

Since benefits have been cut significantly, these further cuts in help with Council Tax bills will hit hard.

We need to organise a mass resistance to these vicious cuts now. We said no to the Poll Tax, we won. There needs to be a campaign to refuse payment just like the Poll Tax.

We got rid of Thatcher via Poll Tax. Cameron could meet a similar fate with this.

Tory toffs get huge agricultural subsidies, Social Security for the rich. No cuts to those to date.

No robbery of the poor via Council Tax in order to subsidise the rich!