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!

From £1,728 to £1,900.52, which even I can work out, without a calculator, is almost a 10% increase. These figures are for a band C property, so valued lower than the median.

This year, we had the 6th highest council tax in the country. It looks like they're trying to come top of the charts for 2019-20.

I wouldn't mind if we got first class services, but the district council has always been poor. Since they merged with a neighbouring council, they've been execrable. I had to ring them to find out how much the bill would be, they haven't sent them out yet and the info wasn't on their website. And they didn't want to tell me, claiming data protection, until I pointed out that in a few days time this info would be available to anyone.

I think most of the increase is down to the county council though (and probably the police and fire brigade), as they just levy their precepts and never have to deal with stroppy taxpayers phoning up to moan. Plus we have a town council who charge a few hundred a year, most of which goes on "administration". All they do is look after the cemetery and dish out grants to community groups.

Band D properties will be paying over £2k a year, which I think is outrageous.

5%
£260 a month

Afterthought: I heard last week that we're actually getting a pay rise of 2.5% in April (the first rise for many a year).

On my paltry part time salary, after paying NI, that'll cover the council tax increase and leave me with about £30.

Apparently multi million pound houses in London pay half of what we pay for far better services

Those rich fuckers probably don't use much in the way of council services though. They'll probably have their children in private schools and they certainly won't qualify for help from adult social care when they need it - they'll have to find their own!

It's much cheaper to deliver council services in a built-up area too. A London borough won't have hundreds and hundreds of miles of rural roads to maintain, and one London borough will probably have a population not much smaller than many rural counties.

Ours is Band A. A one bedroom flat which we rent off a housing association and dont own.

+4.9%

£1143.72

Police is 14+2% on ours.

7.9%
We pay to a local council & a parish council & the parish council element has gone up by 55%

Gone down by £10 a month.

Just had my bill through for the coming year, mine has gone up by about 5.5%! Was shocked as I was expecting the rise to be 3%, as was touted by the council leader on local radio a few weeks back. It "only" amounts to about £8 a month, but we will definitely feel it! :(

Northumberland, 4.5%, £130 a month on a Band A property.

5.9%

wish my wages would go up 5.9% too

Polarbear I didn’t know any councils had decreased the tax - that’s curious

Council tax is the only thing that treats tenants as on a par with home owners.

Some of these numbers are huge. It’s the only thing that’s cheaper in London!

4.99%

5.95% to £124 a month. I don’t know if we can afford the increase as things are so tight at the moment. I am so fed up of everything increasing, there is fast approaching a point where we cannot tighten our belts any more

We’re tenants in a one bed flat too

Bizarrely our monthly payments have gone from £302 to £285. Provided it stays that way, I'm not complaining!

5.5% plus we now have to pay an extra £40 a year to have our green bins collected...

We should have received our bill the week if 4th of March, but haven't received it.

I guess I'll find out at the beginning of April when they take it out if my account.

It was just over £180. I refuse to pay separately to have the green bin emptied, so it doesn't get emptied. I drive to the tip with garden waste if I need to, and put food waste in the black bin.

6.95%

I'm in Scotland and a quick calculation is showing around 3% increase, which I thought was the max that councils were allowed? Our CT bills here also include water services (though ours is only for water delivery services; we have separate sewerage provision).

I do feel for many of our local authorities, especially the non-Tory controlled ones who are having to endure much more savage cuts to their central government funding. Sadly, the easiest targets are the vulnerable, those who always seem to suffer under Conservative governments.

@HelenaDove Well we all use the same services don't we, it doesn't matter if we own or rent.

Why wouldn’t tenants be treated the same way as home owners in terms of council tax? Everyone uses the same services, home owners or not. My highest council tax was when renting a damp, mouldy 2 bed terrace in Bristol. £1200 a month rent, £295 council tax.

Don't know yet but considering the potholes behind my flat are half way up to my knee in depth I hope it's not much