That VAT Rebate

It seems like the Medway Conservative administration has been keeping hush hush about its £2.5m VAT rebate which it received last year.

The Council was successful in recovering the money after it was 'accidently' given to the government by Council controlled Sports Centres. Alas apparently no one in the Conservative administration noticed this error until last year. Oops.

Medway residents will be unsurprised at the financial incomptence. Residents have seen the £2.5m cost of the Chatham two-way fiasco or indeed the £750,000-£850,000 spend on the demolition of the old Civic Centre in Strood. This does not include the millions that will be added to future bills because of the Medway Tunnel purchase.

Oh well, £2.5m is not a small sum and despite the fact it happened because of incompetence, it is a sum which could come in quite handy, perhaps, maybe to lower Council tax?

Whilst Medway Labour called for an immediate rebate to the hard pressed Medway Council tax payer by limiting the increase in Council Tax rise to one per cent at last weeks budget, the Tories rejected the idea.

Giving people their money back. Not in the priority list...