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!

Mines gone up 3% BUT we've been moved down a band so are now paying less this year I didn't realise they could (or would) just change your band

Up by 5% so now £266 a month. Modest 4 bed house in a fairly deprived town.

Gas and electricity also up by £24pm at the same time.

Exactly we all use the same services so why is it based on the property you own OR live in.

6% and they just removed most of the streetlights in the name of savings, so I was biting the carpet when it arrived.

3.4% - up from £176 to £182. Electric/gas going up 10% too. My pay rise will be fixed at 1% this year :(

£295 per month here. I know I choose to live in a rural area but no street lighting, no pavements, no road gritting.

We get a breakdown off all the increases. The portion that goes on the police has gone up 21.8%

I'm looking forward to seeing RoboCop patrolling my village.

4.1 to almost £270 a month.

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Does everyone only pay CT for ten months of the year?

Ours is 1240 per year band b. I think it’s gone up 5% but the letter doesn’t say because of the complicated way CT is calculated. (N Scotland)

3out you can choose how you pay your council tax. Monthly is the only way you can get a direct debit at my council but you can have a one of payment, quarterly payment, 6 monthly, 12 monthly. Also weekly payments, 48 weeks or less, fortnightly payments, but you have to make your own payments or set up a standing order.

Thanks :) I was just wondering because it obviously makes a difference when people are saying they pay X monthly whether they’re paying 12 instalments or 10. Our LA offers annual payment in full or the cost spread over ten months (no payment for the last two months of the CT year). I’m not sure if that’s just here, or if that’s Scotland wide.

I don't know how much mine has gone up yet but it already is over 8% of our gross household income.

5% here, also. Hardly possible to believe. My local library is now being run by a bunch of volunteers, local swimming pool has been closed to the public in the last 6 months, waste collection is every two weeks and, according to an article in the local press there is now no more funding for women’s refuges, Alzheimer’s support and young carers as of this year.

Down the road where my mother in law is, the Council are cutting services, increasing tax, yet are still managing to find 50k to subsidise a Spice Girls concert. If it was fiction, I’d say it was too far fetched.

How much is spent on adult care? That’s the crux in our district- adult care keeps going up as people age and they need help

I've just found out it's 3%. I have a 2% pay rise. I suspect my council tax rise will be the least if my problems after Brexit.