Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
New calls to scrap Council Tax bills for people on State Pension rejected by UK Government
dailyrecord.co.ukAn online petition calling for Council Tax to be abolished for everyone claiming their State Pension has been rejected by the UK Government.
The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities responded to the proposals saying that “the paying of tax is a necessary part of society”.
The petition, created by Brian Hildersley, has received more than 20,830 signatures of support from across the UK and proposes that pensioners should be exempt from paying Council Tax as some older people are spending ‘around 30 per cent’ of their State Pension income on that bill alone.The official response said: “The paying of tax is a necessary part of society - one that ensures that the state can support the most vulnerable, educate our children, support our health service, and look after those who have worked for a lifetime.
Our aspiration as a Government is to keep tax as low as possible - but we do acknowledge its necessity.”It continued: “Pensions acknowledge the important contribution that older people have made to our country for many decades.
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