Council Tax

We pay for garden waste too - maybe about £40.

Mine has gone up 4.9% (District council in N Yks) to £1487 band C. With the single person reduction I pay £112 per month (10 months only). We also have to pay £35 per year to have a garden waste bin empty every 2 weeks for 10 months.

Does anyone else have to pay 'extras' ?

Our water costs us around £400 per year but changes as we have a meter. Is it included in the Council Tax in Scotland mcem?

For information our bands pay as follows.

A £1152
B £1344
C £1536
D £1728
E £2112
F £2496
G £2880
H £3456

You're not wrong gillybob. The £1100 per annum I'm being charged is with a 25% discount for sole occupancy. For a tiny 2 bed cottage! I really wouldn't mind so much if the council hadn't already spent £750,000 on investigations into the conduct of key members of staff, in addition to their full salaries whilst they're being investigated. But we really don't mind having our libraries, nursing homes and social care services cut whilst they do that - not at all.

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 ?

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!

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 !

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.

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

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".

Ps just googled Kensington band c - £998!

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.

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 %.

Should have said we are in Charlwood - North Leicestershire.

Crumbs, ann!

I presume monthly amounts quoted are all 10 monthly instalments?

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

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.

So is ours kitty.

Ours have gone up 5.5%.

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

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 has gone up by almost £200.

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

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

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 ?

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.