To ask how much your council tax has gone up by this year?

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Mine is up over 4%. I haven’t had a pay rise for 5 years now and these bills just keep going up and up. Gas and electric fixed deal up too and even with switching it is 20% higher than last year! I can see a time in the future when I won’t be able to afford to run a house and will have to houseshare or something. Not good aged 42!

Ours is over 5%. Like others it was frozen for many years and they're facing huge cuts - but it seems incredible that the way it's structured means my friend nearby in a small flat will have to pay nearly as much as the people a few roads down in million pound semi detacheds. They need to find a new way of doing this.

I've not heard yet but I dread and grudge it. It's already £247 a month. It's a small 4 bed detached house not a palace! I'm in central Scotland.

It's more than 50% of my mortgage. We put a big deposit down so not to have a big mortgage and it keeps going up. Was £220 when we moved in 2 yrs ago.

2.95% which will be £5 a month, we have to pay for brown bins to be emptied now too for £35 a year.

4.9%.

Mine has gone up £17 a month

Mine is only 3% I'm in Worcestershire.

Five percent. Eight percent last year

4%. I wouldn't mind if it was ring fenced for the Police and Health and Social Care.

We haven't had the bill yet but I hope it's not much because they do fuck all because my bill is already £160 a month (over 12 months) on a tiny two bed terrace

5.95%
We pay £2890 pa now.
I could cry, i KNOW it is to benefit everyone, but I live at the end of a track, which comes out onto an unadopted road. It has lamposts but no light. They wont switch them on on an unadopted road.
We dont get gritters. I have to drive for 4 miles to get to an occassionally gritted road.
I pay for garden waste to be taken, bin collections once a fortnight.

I do appreciate that I am paying for more than what just affects me personally and directly, but it just feels like an awful lot of money😣

3%...bringing it up to £280 a month!

i had the bill today but as i havent paid CT for years i dont know what it was last year

all i know is its band b and £1095.61

4.9%, it's now £270 a month.

8.5%

Originally a 15% rise was threatened.

Almost 6%. I appreciate that the local police are hopefully going to see a fair bit of that if the breakdown is to be believed but it’s just so expensive considering services have been cut to the bone.

They’ve also raised the tax on commercial properties despite the fact the town centre is half empty, and half fast food/charity shops. So that will kill off what’s left.

It's gone up by £45. We're on the cheapest band.

3% same as last year. It has risen by 26.4% in 8 years which I told them as I applied for discretionary funding to help pay for it. Very much doubt that we will be awarded anything but had to try.

We are frogs boiling in our continual debt misery cycle and I am fed up of surviving rather than living.

I agree council tax is a very unfair tax. You have to pay it not matter what your income. And it's very unfair on single people, why should I pay more than people who are part of a couple? They should scrap it and raise income tax.

We get a student discount (so that's why it looks a low amount to others on here!) but it's gone from £70 to £81 a month our council is bloody useless too.

NameChanger you can get a 25% discount if you live alone. It is a very unfair tax.

So similar then. I wouldn’t mind increases if wages were going up but when did people last get 4/5% pay rises. They just don’t happen for most people. Gas and electric too. Im sat here tonight with no heating on and three layers with a duvet over me to keep warm. I shop at Aldi and Lidl and do all the money saving things on that Martin Lewis site but only just survive. It’s utterly depressing. My pension is rubbish too. The future looks so bleak.

From £265 per month to £271 😟

Woah where is it that has gone up 8.5 and 9%?? I haven’t had my letter through yet so I hope it’s not where I live as it’s slready one of the highest in the country!

OP my DP has actually had a pay decrease vs 5 years ago as his industry is floundering. We’ve had 2 children since then and because of this and inflation our food bill alone has doubled vs 5 years ago. It’s crazy.