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

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£250,000. £3263

RIP off.

£475k - £2,700 for 23/24 (band E). Coastal West Sussex.

Houses I'm looking at are around £125,000, Council Tax for Band A is £1440.86.

480,000
CT is 1580
I'm in one of the Home Counties

270k, £1058 band B with single person discount. SE london borough.

Est value £210, 000. 2 bed, one bathroom flat ( large, old building converted into 57 flats) Band D £2,387.81( 23-24) . Dorset village location.

You can look it up here Council tax .

Hi neighbour :) such a nice borough to live in, isn’t it? Not just re low council tax

It would be much fairer if band costs were the same everywhere

House value about £165k

Council tax. £1430. That includes water

Well over 40% of my city's council tax goes on children's social care alone.

£600k - £2,803.95 - band E. I live in the area with second highest council tax rates in England (Nottingham City). For some reason, the neighbour's houses are all band F, despite being almost identical.

It would remove a significant element of democracy. We vote for local councils and have the choice between low council tax and rubbish services or high council tax and reasonable ones.

In my county 30% of the population is aged over 65 and 41% of the budget is spent on Adult social care.

£355,000 / £984, Southwark.

It's a totally preposterous tax in terms of how it's calculated.

Our council is roughly 30% each adult social care and children's services. 24% of the population are under 19. ~15% are over 65. Interesting stats.

£400,000
£2575 band e
East mids

pussilinamorous yes that’s what I was trying to say.
I live in an area where lots of adults are in care or get care and a lot of that huge cost is passed onto the council taxpayer.
There are also a lot of families who keep having lots of children despite those children needing extra help.
Part of this cost is also passed onto the council tax payer.
I completed a survey where the council asked if I would be happy for my ct to increase by X % and I said no.
They then asked which services I would be happy to cut and I said those exact ones.
You keep having children, you pay for their extra needs eg taxis to and from school.

The disparity is those who live in ‘nice areas’ will either pay less or have much better services which they use.

Whilst some of us are paying for Sharron’s 4th child to be taxied to and from school whilst the father of that child earns more than I do but claims to live at a different address. Others are getting more buses from the street they live in at a very reasonable cost. Or a beautiful, clean park.
There are some things which the council cannot refuse to do and that is the issue.

As for the roads there should be a levey imposed on those who use artics. They are the ones destroying the roads where I live despite numerous signs telling them not to use these specific roads. Yet again why should the ct payer stump up the bill for this?
The trouble is the people who pay the most relatively don’t always get the most benefit.

£550k. £3500

It’s not really surprising, is it? The population needs the most care at either end of life. It’s provided by parents at the lower end and the state often has to step in at the upper end. Under 19s will have made no financial contribution, whereas many over 65s will have been contributing for decades.

£255,000 (terrace house, SE, bought in 2017)
£2,640

Slightly odd one. We and some neighbours with smaller houses are £2800, and some other newer house neighbours are £3800 (rounded both so the location can't be identified). Our house is actually bigger than the higher band houses and has a bigger garden, but the newer houses were obviously evaluated into a higher band. House prices are all over £1m because it's London, even the little house at the end.

Some services like road repair and rubbish collection are more expensive to run in sprawling rural counties, social services tend to cost more due to greater demand in cities. I would think it's almost impossible to compare service cost and value across all areas of the country, but neighbouring areas should be fairly similar or it suggests a poorly run council.

I don't agree really.
I live in a poor area in general. Lots of asylum seekers. High levels of deprivation.
Council in huge financial difficulties.
Council costs are huge.
Government should actually be levelling up rather than putting the burden on the slightly better off people who also live in the poorer area.

I did find it interesting pn getting our first council tax bill (we had been in military housing before that, so system different) we pay one amount to the district council, and then a lot smaller amount to the Parish council. That amount is different in each village.

Yep it looks like somebody has collected lolly sticks and stuck them on the wall…

My house is £1.2m and I pay £2508 in East London (Waltham Forest). Also I rent out a 3 bed terraced house in the next borough which is Redbridge - value is £550k and the council tax on that is £1975.