Is your Council tax rising? Fed up

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Mine is going up 4.99 percent. I am fed up of absorbing the costs of everything rising and rising. My wage is not getting that much better.

Just feels like we are getting poorer every day. Just fed up.

Answers me question lovely that like

If it was a bill you could just not pay. But it's a tax so the only option is, yes, riot.

We live in Birmingham and ours is increasing by 9.99% this year and the same again next year.

No they wouldn't, just don't cut taxes that as i said earlier just primarily benefit the better off.

Whats the point of £300 off your tax bill if it means your kids cannot learn to swim because the leisure centre is closed or you need to pay £800 for a new wheel for car after hitting a pot hole?

Now we have the Govt wanting to cut services further in order to remove inheritance tax, i don't care, i'll be dead, i wont know.

Right behind you

I am not in favour of cutting taxes. However, we still need to pay for higher costs and particularly adult social care and this does mean taxes generally will rise I am afraid. We can argue who should be paying higher taxes and what the level should be, but higher taxes are coming our way.

Social care should be funding centrally imo.
One of my parents needed council social care between hospital discharge and going into a care home for about 6 months.
It was horrible and I'm so glad it wasn't long term, he would have died through neglect if the family weren't able to supplement his care. I really wouldn't rely on social care unless you don't mind being treated worse than an animal.
I have no expectation that social care would be delivered better through the government but I don't think councils should carry this burden.

The single person discount is a joke (as in it doesn't feel like much of a 'discount' paying way more than a couple would share), but I can't see that ever changing especially as there are so many single people living alone and that's only going to increase, it's a nice earner for councils.

If they raise taxes more people will make changes to mitigate the effect on their lives. Council tax is a difficult one because it has to be paid and the only way to reduce it is to move to lower band house/different area. However there are lots of options for people to reduce the tax they pay.

I don't want to pay more tax and am one of those who will do everything to not to pay anymore. Council spending is out of control, too many bloated wasteful councils. Birmingham is an excellent example if shocking mismanagement and incompetency. Why should the people continue to pay more whilst many are still in post (and they continued to fight cases and waste more money).

IMO this ever ending need for more tax and money is the insistence that everyone is treated as having individual needs that must be met at any cost and met by the taxpayer. The country simply can't afford this and it's only going to get worse.

I think pp are right. More years of this might push towards euthanasia. They're already pushing to take whatever pension we'll get, even though we've been paying into it for as long as our parents did (who were able to retire at 60 from non professional jobs and still live well).

Tbh, I've always been for euthanasia. Granted, I'm no longer a depressed teen, for whom the idea seemed logical, but I don't want to be as old as my elderly relatives: bones crumbling; mind going(or gone in 2 cases). If you knew you had a cut off date, you could live your life right up to it, rather than wondering how long you'll have to suffer for.

I'm mid 40s. 80 seems good to me. I'll have hopefully retired, won't have many friends or family left, probably unable to see clearly enough to read, knees will be shot to fuck.

The problem with CT is that it hits the less well off the hardest, the higher value bands just don't reflect the values of these properties.
Even people on NMW will not get any help towards CT.

Adult social care needs to be centrally funded, otherwise its a postcode lottery.

pardon????

In Scotland so no rise for us, luckily.

Yes. Steady rises. The whole area is filthy, covered in rubbish, run down, potholes everywhere (but endless road works to vomit up yet another badly planned housing estate on any spare inch of green space), waste collection issues, library cuts, minimal verge cutting and maintenance. And yet we pay more and more and more.

Social care needs to be funded centrally.

A neighbouring council the bin workers are on strike. Been on strike for months.

The government are cutting public services to the bone and leaving lol oval authorities to pick up the pieces with less. That's their intention. It means they can claim that the problems with local services are caused by local councils/local authorities and not due to central government's policy.

For many years there's been a deliberate transfer of taxpayers' money to private interests, who conveniently seems to line up with politicians' interests and funding.