We aways provided a penny, tuppenny or threepenny rate towards the housing revenue account to share the burden of our massive slum clearance programme.
However, even if that were abolished altogether, there could be no more than the saving of the tuppenny rate.
A minute fraction of the tuppenny tax relief is all that is required to fulfil the aim of this new clause.
In other words, local authorities had to fall back on what used to be called the "tuppenny rate".
On the old tuppenny letter you lost on delivering to a farm but you gained on delivering in the next street.
It is the voluntary sector and voluntary services which most need the expansion of the tuppenny rate, as it is coloquially called.
Sixty-five is a tuppenny age; a 65-year-old is quite a young person!
How do they benefit from the product of the tuppenny rate anyway, under section 137, if they are not paying rates?
