Nobody enjoys having to pay their council tax.
Its critics say it's regressive and unfair, penalising poorer Scots the most, and that Scotland needs urgent reform of the system.
Big changes to how council tax works have been repeatedly promised from the SNP, with former first minister Alex Salmond pledging to scrap it back in 2007.
The party now says efforts to replace the system had to stop "due to the pandemic".
Amid a challenging fiscal backdrop, with Westminster's cuts being replicated at Holyrood, some campaigners and organisations are urging the Scottish Government to look again at council tax - suggesting reform could help avoid further austerity.
So over the next week we're looking in depth at council tax and proposals to change it for the better.
Why is council tax considered so unfair? What alternatives are there? Why has it never happened? How would a land tax play into all of this?
These are just some of the questions our team hopes to answer from Monday to Friday.
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