Your Council tax rise?

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How much has your council tax has gone up too and how your managing all this increase all the time .
Ours gone up a hundred and five pounds from last year

They’ll be from a Euro zone country. (So 100€ not €100). Probably hard habit to break when writing.

Whaaaaat ? 😮

Do you live in an apartment in Buck House ?

That's outrageous !

We are also in NW England and ours has gone up £168 to £1937.

Green waste has gone up from £35 to £40.

Mainland Europe here. We don’t pay council tax at all. Stuff like Police and fixing roads comes from Taxes.

Pay water and waste water separately
Pay bin collection separately - I think it’s around €120 a quarter for us ( around £100, so. £400 ish a year)

I didnt realise my dh was on here..

This is us too

Green waste is £100 for one bin (which you also pay for)

Due to redundancy / risk of redundancy we both also moved jobs and our net income is down by 30k gross

Do you receive carer's allowance?

There is help for council tax for low income households. Have you looked to see if you are eligible?

It's all going on social care so we will all just pay more and more every year and everything will get worse and worse around us as all the money has to go to that.

I think we have to seriously rethink how we organise things. At this point the council doesn't seem to really exist to most rate payers round here. The bin collection is random and rare, the streetlights are broken, there are holes in the roads, there's no police or anything. We do have a park, run by volunteers.

Maybe they should just be honest and call it alms.

£108 per year

1%, so about £20 for the year. (Also, don’t live in Loughborough in case my username misleads anyone)

Feeling lucky now I’ve read everyone else’s big increases 🫣

I feel your pain about the oil CH. I'm hoping to eke ours out until summer. Electric throws all the way.

10% increase on last year = £336 more per year, Scotland.

3.9 percent increase. That's a lower increase than last year.

We pay to get our garden waste bin emptied, and that’s gone up from £30 last year to £40 this year

Extra £90 a year. It won't touch the sides when it comes to social care and potholes though.

Scotland- 10%. My pension won't go up by 10% though.

Thank goodness we're Band A.

7%..mainly social care

Up £230 a year and cost of green waste bin has doubled (now cancelled). What particularly bothers me is the levy for the town council (who do nothing). Three levels of council, one of which is a powerless vanity project.

Apart from Scotland, surely nearly everyone’s is likely to have gone up by about 5% which is what the government allows?
Local councils are struggling, as others have said, the largest cost being social care which, as part of society, I accept I need to contribute to.

I don’t want to pay for a local crime commissioner, they take a large chunk of the cost, we voted against having one, it’s just a duplication of other jobs, total waste.
We also voted against a parish council in our tiny village that the retired people want, more expense and petty rules from them, coming into our lives

£10 a month.
Nothing I can do about it.

And social care shouldn’t be so expensive. Councils funding taxis for local farm based children in our area, who have a parent who could easily drive them to school, as they did in primary school.
Adults with disabilities having funded transport to day services while their parents and carers sit at home in their financed disability car

7% increase, Band A and live alone so get the 25% discunt (which I think should be 50%!) However, I'm more concerned about the huge increase in my electricity as I've been on a low fixed rate for two years which comes to an end in April...and don’t get me started on the heating oil which has more than doubled. And yet my income isn't rising so I'm basically fucked. Oh, and my rent is going up 5%. I am seriously thinking...what's the point of life? Every single pound goes on bills. Rant over.

The annoying thing for me is that I’m subsidising those who don’t pay and who cause the increase.
Plenty of people don’t pay what they should, claiming single adult household for example when they are a couple with children but pretending to live apart.
Then those who cause the increase. Dropping litter which the tax payer has to then pay to have removed. Fly tipping. Having multiple children and not is parenting them to a reasonable standard. Again, the tax payer picks up the tab. The council can’t just ignore these issues.
I’m not saying I agree with all council spending, I don’t. However, there are things the council have to provide such as adult social care and the bill is rising.

I earn too much for CA and council tax support
sometimes I reckon I’d be better off on benefits but working part time keeps me sane

I think adult social care needs a huge review.

I also believe that those who pay for services should get a far better deal.
If you get for example a mobility car, then you should not qualify for any other form of free transport. You get carers allowance then you should be caring for that person and not expecting outside free help. You can’t have it all ways.
You are claiming benefits then a percentage of that should be taken from you and put in a pension pot and you be expected to use that in retirement the way that those who have worked have to.
This money is then used to help pay for your care if you need it in old age.
If you’ve pissed it up the wall, then you go to the end of the queue, or the level of service you receive is reduced.
Too many people take the piss and it’s because their money isn’t being used to pay for things. When you have to work for something you respect it more.