How much is your council tax?

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Band D £1863

£1500 4 bed detached In Derbyshire

Im not really Arnold. I'm Charles Windsor. I live with my extended family and my council tax is £1400 per annum. Not bad eh..

Ooh got our new bill this morning in the post, it’s £2884 band G

Band F, small 4 bed detached new build in the South East. £2620.

I'm thinking of appealing my tax band as I'm in a higher band than my neighbour who's house is identical to mine. However neighbour has a double garage, I do not so theirs is valued £30000 more than mine! I've also checked my 1991 valuation and that puts me in the lower end of the tax band below too!

If I challenge it I'm worried that I will be told to stop wasting their time or that my neighbour has their tax band changed. 😬

£1500ish. 3 bed housing association and I struggle to pay it!

Try living in a relatively new property. My tiny two bedroom flat is classed as band c because of this. £1160 with single person discount. The discount pisses me off more than the banding tbh. Why should I pay 50% more than one half of a couple? It's not a utility, it's a fucking tax. I shouldn't be paying more tax than a different tax payer just because I'm not married.

Oops sorry mis typed it's £1260.

Band F £2500, but we had some extra rooms added and they haven't caught on yet, will probably go up a band

Council tax is ripe for reform and has been for years. It is grossly unfair . The trouble is of course that successive Governments are scared stiff of touching it . Look what happened last time when they introduced the poll tax. Prior to that everyone was happy. Everything was funded from central Government. They chose to devolve a lot of expenditure responsibility and fund it locally. I suspect they had an agenda for doing that. Now its totally fucked up . We are being doubly taxed. We still pay central government taxes and now we have wasteful local authorities taxing us ! And yet the level of services has gone down and down and the bureaucracy has gone up. How can it possibly be fair that in the city of Westminster, home to some of the most expensive real estate in the world and some of the wealthiest people,that they pay max £1400 pa !!

How can it possibly be fair that in the city of Westminster, home to some of the most expensive real estate in the world and some of the wealthiest people,that they pay max £1400 pa !!

And three bin collections week thrown in! You have to be really rich to pay so little.

£1140. Band A or B I think. 2 bed mid terrace. East Mids.

£2379 band D. 3 bed.

Sorry that’s wrong. It’s £1985

£2,651.57 Band F, 4 bed in Bucks. Has gone up 4.5% this year.

Band b, around £1200, 3 bed semi-detached in the north west.

Band A, very large three bed flat (block of 4 so basically neighbour above and beside)

Council tax includes wastewater, sewerage and as usual in Scotland, water rates for the year too.

Whole bill is £1073 for the year. Much cheaper than when I was paying a water bill too back in England.

£2600ish. Band F, Croydon.

£2,213.76 Band E, South East, 4/5 bedroom detached house.

£1800 for me & 10yo son.

£1364.90 band B Somerset. I get 25% single person discount though which takes it down to £1023.67.

5.3% increase on previous year.

@Arnoldthecat
Council tax is regressive - it stops at band H
so a semi in Wandsworth pays the same as Windsor Castle

It also does not penalise keeping property empty nearly hard enough
despite housing benefit being a significant drain on resources

Council tax per se could be made to work
but it would involve proper localisation of decision making rather than the stupid 2% capping system
when the cost of adult social care in my county alone is well over £1,000,000.00 per day
and rising

There needs to be a revaluation of the Council tax bands and of course they should be extended as it is ridiculous that a multi million pound property should be in band H.

Presume mine is band F/G - 4 bed detached East Midlands just shy of £2600

Band G - £2978. 4 bed detached in Herts. Up 3.9%.

£1300 - Band A - 3 bed semi
Nearly 60% of properties in the district are Band A