Council Tax

I will check properly later ( when I am dressed!!) but I have just googled and on an increased rate of 4:99% a property in band D in Stockport will rise by £77:94p so your increase is quite high.

I'm in the next county to you annsixty and our CT has gone up by 6% this year. Quite a hike.

Our council tax has risen by 4.95% . It’s now £170 per month . It’s really getting out of hand. Our LA is one of the poorest in the country but they can’t expect those who can already, just manage to make ends meet to just keep paying more and more .

I've been considering consulting the wise ones of GN since my bill came in last week.
I don't mind a modest increase to protect services but am very curious about council tax rates countrywide (ever since I became aware of the rates in Kensington.)
I'll check my bill and get back but I 'd love to know area and c.tax band as well as the %age increase.

I’m not sure where you are mcem but my very modest terraced property in Tyneside has council tax much higher than a property worth millions in K&C . How can that be fair ?

Ours has gone up 3.9% and is now £130 a month band C

Ours is now £166 a month a Rise of nearly 6 %.

Our band D in North Essex has gone up by about £80. By my reckoning approx 5%.
All we are getting for the increase is cuts!

Ours has gone up by almost £200.

As we know, the govt is hoping to compensate for its own reductions in funding of council services by allowing increases in the council tax, including an additional percentage for adult social care. And as many posters are saying, council tax hits the less well off the hardest. It’s an unfair tax, and higher bands should be introduced but that argument always gets short shrift. Also IMO for many years the electorate has made it clear that it won’t vote for increases in income tax so no govt will touch it, or reduce VAT. Those chickens are now coming home to roost by increases in taxes where local councils can be blamed.

Ours have gone up 5.5%.

We are Band F and next year's bill is £2,500 ish.

So is ours kitty.

I have just checked and we currently pay £2,556 for band E
This is going up for next year by 4:99%.
Stockport is not the most salubrious part of the country by any means.

Sorry, that is wrong. We only pay for 10 months so the annual bill is £2,130 for the current year.

Should have said we are in Charlwood - North Leicestershire.

Crumbs, ann!

I presume monthly amounts quoted are all 10 monthly instalments?

Mine is £173 per month Band D in Melton Mowbray Leicestershire (gone up by £12 a month) sorry no good at maths don't know how to work out the %.

We have a 3% rise (City of Dundee).
My band c property incl water and sewerage would be £1524 (but with 25% discount I'll pay £114 per month.
Gilly your comment, like mine, queries relative values when compared with rates charged in far wealthier areas.

FYI a band d property will pay £1278pa, e - £1679, f- £2076, g-£2502 and band h £3131pa.

Ps just googled Kensington band c - £998!

I'm in Cheshire and I live in a band B property. My council tax has just risen to £1100 per annum. All the more galling when I think of the senior members of staff at our council who have been on leave on full pay for the last year whilst "investigations into their conduct are carried out".

It’s disgusting isn’t it mcem how can that be fair ?

It’s the same here chewwy a very poor borough with high council taxes snd yet the leader of our council (and his cronies ) are some of the highest paid in the country.

Oh and mines £1700 (a year) how do they expect people to continue like this ? There needs to be a nationally fair tax to look after the huge social care costs not putting already financially stretched people through the bloomin’ mangle !

Gilly in Scotland our council taxes were frozen for a few years but last year and this year there have been increases.
This would bother me a lot more if we were in the same position as so many C tax payers in England. Our schools haven't been hit so hard and our LEAs are still in control so we don't have the nonsense of free schools and academies. (Not a C tax issue but, although things are hard in NHS Scotland, we have held on to nursing bursaries and our nurses have had modest increases).
Genuine efforts are being made the social care sector to avoid bedblocking so if my £3 a month increase is being used in ways I see as appropriate I 'll accept that.
However I 'd be far more frustrated in your position!

But just as long as they keep it nice and low for the millionaires and billionaires in K&C etc. Eh? They won’t need LA social care after all will they ?