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Tele scores decisive victory for Dundee pensioners as council agrees to axe shower tax
The Tele has scored a decisive victory for the city’s pensioners after Dundee City Council agreed to axe the “shower tax”.
VICTORY: Dundee City Council to scrap hated shower tax, following Tele campaign
Dundee City Council will remove the shower charge, following a high-profile campaign from the Evening Telegraph.
Chance to have your say on Dundee City Council’s shower tax
Council tenants are being urged to have their say on the controversial shower tax at a meeting later this month.
Dundee pensioners disappointed as shower tax discussions reach stalemate
Pensioners have expressed their disappointment at the outcome of a meeting with city council officials in their attempts to scrap the controversial shower charge.
Dundee pensioners refuse to wait a year for controversial shower tax to be axed
Dundee’s pensioners are refusing to wait another year for the city’s controversial shower tax to be axed.
Shower tax could remain in place for a year warns Dundee Pensioners’ Forum
The body that represents Dundee’s pensioners has shared concerns that the city’s controversial shower tax may not be lifted until this time next year.
READER’S LETTER: Residents voting to keep ‘shower tax’ is like turkeys voting for Christmas
A reader has been in touch to blast the council's handling of the shower charge issue.
Dundee OAPs consider withholding rent in fight to end ‘shower tax’
Dundee pensioners are considering withholding part of their rent in their ongoing fight to abolish the shower tax.
OVERWHELMING: 87% of Tele readers back our campaign to Axe the Shower Tax in Dundee
Tele readers have voted overwhelmingly in favour of scrapping the council’s long-running controversial shower service charge.
AXE THE SHOWER TAX: Senior Dundee councillor involved in setting up charge backs Tele campaign
A senior Dundee councillor involved in the decision to set-up the controversial shower service charge said today she is backing the Tele’s Axe the Shower Tax campaign.
AXE THE SHOWER TAX: Dundee council ‘pockets £6 million’ from hated weekly charge
Dundee City Council may have pocketed as much as £6 million from charging residents up to £10 a week for having a shower.
TELE CAMPAIGN: This is why we need to axe Dundee’s shower tax
Since first writing about the shower “tax” last week we have been inundated with messages from concerned members of the public.
OAPs to fight ‘£10 weekly charge’ to shower in Dundee Council-run homes
Pensioners have pledged to fight an “outrageous” charge which means they have to pay to take a shower.