Council Tax- how much is yours

[OnlyFoolsnMothers]

I’ve read that council tax outside of London can be more expensive than inside, so I’m being nosy having just got my new bill.

I’ll start:
London, 3 bed terrace £1691.52 (or £169 over 10
Months)

Bloody extortionate imo!

North west. Just had a 10% increase, £275 over 10 months. 4 bed detached.

£1159, band A in an area of Scotland, council tax itself is £853 and the rest is water and sewerage,

Forgot to add my £1159 includes my 25% discount.

£1482 per year. 2 bed in Shrewsbury

I'm a student. I haven't paid council tax in 4 years. I feel sick reading these.

£160 a month. Well over 15% of my take home. I'm paying more than 37 fucking percent tax. Bastards.

Dorset. Just over £2k pa for 2 bed flat. Bloody ridiculous.

£2,557.88

Three bed, three reception, just outside Guildford.

In essence £256 a month.

Cornwall, end of terrace cottage, small garden, no garage just a parking spot, band b, £1950 per year, £195 per month. We are in a rented property.

Water is £85 a month.

But Wandsworth were consistently the lowest council tax in the country and ran a very efficient borough. If they can do it why can’t others? But as I said they accrued significant income from parking and I suppose did not have an elderly population demographic requiring care etc

I suppose a lot of the London boroughs have a high population density so more people to share the cost between?

I don't know how the amount of students and/or people on low incomes who get help with their council tax affects the amount other people pay either?

If an area has a lot of students or low income households, who makes up the shortfall? Government or other residents by increasing the bill for those who do pay? Or do they provide fewer services? Or more efficient? Councils also get income from business rates, plus other sources of income like entrance fees to council run leisure facilities, although I expect those only go towards the cost of running that service.

On the matter of Wandsworth, I suppose parking permits could make a lot of the shortfall, or it could be efficiency, but it would be interesting to see if there is something that Wandsworth residents are missing out on or pay for via other routes to offset their low council tax?

£149 @ 10mths. Suffolk band B. Rural so not many services compared with being in a town.

Band E £2365 Cambridge

5 bed detached £3338 pa. it’s extortionate!

@x2boys the thing though is that one you will pay off your London mortgage, but you will never stop paying council tax. You can sell your London property and recover whatever you spent on the mortgage some day but you will never recover what you spent on council tax.

Lake District. 3 bed terrace - £205 a month 🙄

Sussex, average sized 3 bed detached, £285 a month.

Middle of nowhere in Wales, 3 bed, detached, £207 per month for 10 months

Northumberland. £158 a month (12 months) but that’s with 25% single person discount.

I don’t mind paying the social care bit, but I resent the £45 for police and crime commissioner. Don’t we already pay for the police force through taxes? What actual value does another figurehead give?

3 bed semi, Midlands £2100 a year

North Yorkshire , 4 bed on new build estate . Not massive at all £2500

Scotland
£119 a month
We pay over 12 months instead of 10 to spread the cost
3 bedroom house

Staffordshire.
£188 per month over 10 months with an extra one off payment of £40-£50 for the garden waste bin to emptied every two weeks (although they don’t empty them during Dec and Jan).

Should’ve said we live in a 4 bed semi.

Just remembered my £129 a month ( 2 bed terrace in Hampshire ) includes a 25% discount. God, it’s loads isn’t it. I never thought of it as being much more than gas age electric but it really is.

£75 per month in Westminster.