About the Campaign
Council Tax is Broken. it’s time to fix it.
Britain cannot solve twenty-first century problems with a local tax system built around property values from 1991.
Council Tax was introduced as a temporary answer to a political problem. Decades later, it has become one of the most important taxes people pay — yet it no longer reflects how Britain works, how communities have changed, or where wealth now sits.
The result is a system that too often places disproportionate pressure on lower-value homes and communities while failing to command confidence that the burden is shared fairly.
Everyone knows the system is outdated.
Almost nobody defends it.
Yet for years, reform has been treated as politically impossible.
We reject that.
This campaign exists to put Council Tax reform onto the agenda of the Labour movement and the national Party — not by prescribing a single answer, but by making the case that continuing with the status quo is no longer credible.
We believe Labour has always been at its strongest when it has had the confidence to confront systems that no longer serve working people and build something better in their place.
That is why our aim is simple:
Make Council Tax reform impossible to ignore.
What We Are Doing
We are building a broad coalition across the Labour movement to raise the case for reform and create political space for serious change.
That means:
Engaging Constituency Labour Parties across the country
Supporting members to organise meetings and policy discussions
Providing speakers including MPs, councillors, campaigners and policy voices
Working with affiliated organisations, researchers and campaign groups
Bringing together different schools of thought around reform into one conversation
This campaign is deliberately open.
Some support proportional property taxation.
Some advocate land value taxation.
Some favour revaluation and structural reform.
Others propose entirely different approaches.
We do not believe Labour should close down that debate.
We believe Labour should lead it.
That is why we are working constructively with organisations, writers and campaigners across the reform space to strengthen the case for change and help members engage seriously with the options.
Our Immediate Goal
Our immediate objective is to support Constituency Labour Parties to bring Council Tax reform to Annual Conference.
We are encouraging CLPs to organise locally, engage members, and consider submitting motions that call for Labour to confront the failures of the current system and begin serious work on reform.
Conference exists to shape the future direction of our Party.
If enough local parties act together, reform becomes impossible to ignore.
This is not about internal politics.
It is about whether Labour is willing to meet modern challenges with modern solutions.
Because if politics cannot reform systems that everybody knows are broken, people stop believing politics can change anything at all.
Council Tax reform is not the whole answer.
But refusing to ask the question is part of the problem.
Join the campaign. Bring the debate to your CLP. Help put Council Tax reform on the agenda.