0 an informal name for a UK government policy introduced in 2012 that reduced the amount of housing benefit (= money to help poorer people pay their rent) paid to people living in houses that were considered to have more bedrooms than they needed
We have had the head tax, the floor tax, the skull tax, the bed-and-breakfast tax, the capital values tax and the bedroom tax.
What about a bedroom tax, with people getting a do-it-yourself kit to knock down dividing walls?
This clause promotes the idea of a tourist or bedroom tax.
Can he tell us today: does he want the floor tax or the roof tax, the bed-and-breakfast tax or the bedroom tax, the capital value tax or the extension tax?
Detractors have widely referred to the penalty as a bedroom tax, while government advocates of the scheme have used the term spare room subsidy.
Willott also came under sustained pressure from political opponents over her support for the bedroom tax.
Critics have referred to the policy as a bedroom tax whereas supporters of the change have referred to the unreformed system as a spare room subsidy.
