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

That is just so infuriating.

This thread is about council tax, not benefits, and certainly not the Motability scheme.

I get my water bill twice each year, and am due one next month. Will be interesting to see what it is. It was £90 last year.

Water bills could be a whole different thread! It always astounds me how much some people are paying, but it is not like energy suppliers where you can change them and swap tariffs etc.

I cannot remotely stand Reform; but lots of other non-Reform councils have been pushing for sky-high increases.

Ours is staunch Tory and we got 9% as well - but they too tried to make us feel grateful that it wasn't more.

It's astonishing - and outrageous - how something so essential to life is put out to monopoly companies for them to profit from.

Then as if you could do without it anyway, I don't think it's actually legal to have your home cut off from the supply, even if you wanted to.

@Amiacoolorwarmcolour I think you've gone a bit cracked here.

When DH died and I was able to work full time, I immediately became a higher rate taxpayer. I could have been one the whole time if I had left him, as I'm one of those maths people. But the amount in tax I pay now is absolutely nothing to what I was contributing as a carer. I don't mean morally or spiritually here, I mean literally in money saved on the care bill.

You don't understand at all how much care costs. If you design a system (even more) hostile to family carers, the care still needs to be done, and the cost to the state would be unimaginably large. It is much more than the entire budget of the NHS. It would seriously damage our whole society and economy.

Your idea is stupid because it is about your emotional anger towards people you perceive to be beneath you. You can feel those things, many do, all I'm saying is it's obscured your ability to analyse the reality of the health and social care arrangements that actually exist.

£70 a year for me. Approx 4.8%. Tory council, London/Kent borders.

Band C £10 pm

I'm with Welsh Water, a not for profit company and it doesn't have shareholders, so where does my money go? Certainly not on maintenance where I live. It's had massive fines recently for polluting rivers. I'm on a meter and have been told I'm a low user, yet my direct debit has gone up by a third! I'm basically paying for the company's incompetence.

Well, my bill came today. This time last year it was £90. My usage is actually down, but my bill this time is £145! The standing charge is £90 of that.
Prices went up 40%, and due to go up again in April. Thames Water.

I think that, however much we're urged to accept that usage of essential utilities is entirely in our own hands and costs are directly proportional to how much we actually use, the suppliers seem to have an average amount that they want to get from each customer and they adjust the unit prices accordingly.

The same with electricity bills: major household appliances used to be magnitudes more inefficient than they are now, and we were told how very much cheaper it would be for us to have modern, super-efficient appliances compared with the old power-hungry equivalents of decades past. Yeah, that didn't happen, did it?!

I have no doubt whatsoever that, once petrol and diesel cars are a thing of the past and virtually everybody has an EV as standard, it won't cost the average EV owner a penny less than it would cost them now for the same mileage in an ICE car - and most probably far more in reality.

Almost 10% (Worcestershire) so about £250.

Gone up extra £120 per year - it’s just not right and day light robbery. It’s getting to the point it no longer pays to work!

Not really. I don't work and mine has gone up £90. I still have to pay it.

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