Aibu to ask your house price and council tax cost. (Disparity between areas)

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£250,000. £3263

RIP off.

North Wales, similar value £3500 this year 🙈

Don't know re house price as renting can't afford to buy), £2628 CT.

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We'll have to sell in a couple of years when I retire (early granted). Can't afford it on a pension.

But we know house prices vary hugely between different areas.

Isn’t it more useful to look at size of house (number of rooms) to council tax?

The bands are set relative to house prices in that particular LA. So a I bed flat in London and a 1 bed flat in Hull will both probably be Band A even though you could buy a huge detached house in many areas for the price of the London flat…

It’s relative.

£280k (bought 15 years ago for £150k)
£1,800

Council tax seems absolutely huge outside of London.

£3500 value £500,000
Yet our neighbour worth £1.5m + is less 🤨

i rent but it’s the same, around 3000

89000, £178 a month. So lucky I know, detached! Northeast x

£1600 Scotland central belt
House valued £180000

London
House £1m+
CT £2660

And they empty the bins and recycling every day of the week.

Wandsworth is even cheaper I think.

What's buying got to do with it. The council tax is the same for my rented HA property as is it for my friends next door which she bought. (£250K and £1,866 CT )

Lucky? That’s 2136 so same as everyone else nearly 🤔

Just wondering why buying makes any difference?

Current value circa £270,000. £1700 (Band B)

I will win this one. I pay £2411 and house is worth £150k

Ours has been band D since we bought it almost 20 years ago. We’ve extended it twice. Probably worth about £450k now (in the south). I think the council tax is £1895, or it was last year, haven’t had the bill in fir this year yet.

We’re in Rutland which is extortionate for council tax.

Small 3 bed cottage, £2417 band D. Current valuation around £450-500k

£425k , £3300,2nd highest in Scotland🙄

The business rates should go to a countrywide pot - residents get the benefit of employment opportunity imo

My house is band 'h'. It's extortionate

central Scotland, house worth about 320k. £2580 a year.

I feel mine is similar if I don’t have the single person discount. I pay around £1200 a year and the flat I’m in is worth £180,000.

So I guess without the discount it’s about £1500??

I agree it’s an unfair tax.

315K, Band D, 2,085.82.
I fucking hate council tax!
Also most of the money isn't on emptying bins etc etc as people believe but it goes on 'social care'... which if you're in a deprived area is a money suck with many consuming but very few contributing.
20% of Councils are on the brink of bankruptcy, let's see what happens then.