to think a 20% increase in council tax is just a tad unreasonable in this ecnomy.

[AtheneNoctua]

WTF?! We cannot afford this.

I think there must be some error. We are in the second highest band in Spelthorne (Sunbury) and I just can't get my head round how anyone could put our haouse in this band.

Does anyone know how/if we can challenge the band we are in?

According to The Times no council has an increase of over 5% this year, so something is wrong with your bill.

Or do you get some council tax benefit? In which case if you lost the benefit you would see the net bill go up I guess.

My bill has gone down by £20?

Am i missing something? I am band B.

AtheneNoctua, fear not.

Your council tax bill last year was £2342.93

Your council tax bill this year is £2422.63

That is a rise of 3.4% on last year. Don't know where your 20% came from, but you don't have to worry about it.

Perhaps one of the components of your council tax went up 20% - but your overall bill shouldn't have done. Mine went up 3% overall.

I know councils still have to provide services, but I know someone who applied to be a bin man for the council and they said that they had a waiting list of 250 people, added to which they were laying off binmen. So they are making cuts in some areas it looks like.

Well, the 20% came from DH saying it had risen that much. But, I came up with the same numbers you did.