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

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£250,000. £3263

RIP off.

£3700 band G £1.5m

Realising we are being well and truly stung by NE councils. Newcastle - Band H (approx £500k value) and ours is £4,361 and about to go up again when all local services are being cut to the bone.

£400,000 ish and pay band E £2752. North West.
Next door pay band C £2000 because they extended and still live there, we bought after our extension was done.
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£540,000 and £2300.

I guess once you hit the top band, cost doesn't go up in line with value.

About £750,000 - £3,600 (Band G) - Reading/West Berks.

Expecting to increase by the max 5% this year, again.

£390k £1681

180,000 2500, East Yorkshire

It costs a lot less to deliver services in a densely populated area. Less roads to maintain, cheaper to collect the rubbish as the distances they have to travel are much shorter, fewer schools (and fewer children needing school buses), fewer libraries per number of households etc.

£1million / £3576 West Yorkshire

Renting a flat that our landlord bought for £58k in 2021 (in good condition, he didn't have to do it up) and we pay £1536. Yorkshire

I agree, particularly as there is more need for social care in deprived areas.

I always assumed the banding was based on property size. As our band changed when we bought and the previous owners had extended. So while a certain size house will cost X in the south east the same size house elsewhere will cost less but the council tax will still be high?

What buses! Outside of cities there is fuck all in buses and dc do not get free travel like they do in London!

I think councils should revalue properties when they are extended.

All the houses in my road were built to the same footprint and either 3 beds with a ground floor bathroom or 2 beds with an upstairs bathroom.

There are now very few that haven't been extended to the side (they're all semi-detached), which increases the floor area massively and can give another 2 bedrooms. Some have extended into the loft as well, and now have 5 bedrooms. They go for a lot more money, nearly 50% more than those that haven't been extended, but still pay the same council tax. And they house a lot more people, too!

Council tax is stupid.

Deprivation requires services. Which cost money. The areas which have the worst cost profile also can't raise as much revenue from their local population.

Its the most pointless fucking tax ever and concentrates revenue in the wealthiest areas, often in London.

*LakieLady · Today 07:36

It costs a lot less to deliver services in a densely populated area. Less roads to maintain, cheaper to collect the rubbish as the distances they have to travel are much shorter, fewer schools (and fewer children needing school buses), fewer libraries per number of households etc*

Agree - someone's not thought this through with council tax.

What matters is cost per capita. It costs far more per passenger to run a rural bus that serves a small, sparse population than to run a busy full london bus in a densely populated area.

Its also more costly to collect rubbish per household as vans have to travel a wider area to collect from the same number of households.

more children (a greater % of total local children) in rural areas need school buses as school catchments are much bigger and few can walk to school.

The valuation bands are also really out of date and don't reflect the huge national disparity in property values.

£3984, house recently valued at £2M (paid £1.2m ten years ago), London.

900k £2251

Scotland. Value £440,000 council tax is £3700. Feeling ripped off too!

£320,000 and £2100

sorry misread

I'm well aware of the paucity of buses in rural areas! My rural town used to have 4 bus routes that served the outlying estates, it now has one. And that's only from 9.15-5.45, none on Sundays/bank hols, and with a 90 minute gap in the afternoon when it becomes a school bus. And we have a (not at all useful) 3 buses a day to the villages and town north of here, and none at all to the towns on the coast. If you want to go to the nearest town, 7 miles away, you have to get a bus into the nearest city and back out again, so twice the distance.

There is a school bus though, because the town has outgrown the local comp and a lot of secondary age kids have to go to a village comp 5 miles up the road. Lots of kids get free school transport a bit further out in the sticks, because they don't have a school within 3 miles (2 miles for under 8s).

We’re in Scotland and pay 3700/year for council tax. And paid 13,000 in stamp duty on 390,000!

So you’re still doing far better!

Purchased for £900k+ in 2021
Band H Council Tax is £4,344pa
Surrey.

The county and borough councils have both declared bankruptcy so will shorty be increasing the tax rates.

The roads are a mess of pot holes, there was no vegetation management for the past two years. The bins are collected bi-weekly and they now charge for garden waste, but very rarely collect it. Plenty of other services are failing or being cancelled. Pretty dire.

Property worth approx 1million
£3500
East Mids