Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. Flexible and made to last.

Meet the Other Phone.
Flexible and made to last.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Cost of living

Stretching your budget? Share tips and advice to discuss budgeting and energy saving here. For the latest deals and discounts, sign up for Mumsnet Moneysaver emails.

Original poster

Council tax 2023/2024 cost?

118 replies

Nothing2lose · 25/03/2023 14:42

As the title suggests please could you all share what your council tax cost now is rising to.

If happy to share the council area that would be helpful and size of property!

Im about to rent a one bedroom cottage and shocked at the price!

OP posts:
DementedPanda · 26/03/2023 13:11

Band A small North east town. Nearly £197 a month. How on earth is our council tax much more expensive than London?!

dripdripdripdrip · 26/03/2023 13:24

It is lots of things Panda. For instance, Westminster will raise lots of money from on street parking (£5 an hour in some places), lots of businesses paying business rates, social care costs will be low relative to other places.

Westminster Council won't need to charge as much council tax as it raises income elsewhere/doesn't have the same level of social care provision/expenditure.

This is the problem with LAs operating as an island.

Someo · 26/03/2023 13:26

3 bed, Band B.
£135 up from £128, paid over 12 months.

LindyLou2020 · 26/03/2023 13:30

I know this wasn't the point of OP's post, and I'm not trying to start a political debate, but our council has, like many others, increased council tax by just over 5%.
However, it states that even with this increase, it is looking as to where it can make savings, and further cuts in services will have to be made.
Other councils are saying this also.
So many of us are, again, going to be paying more for less...........just stating the facts.

Luckydip1 · 26/03/2023 13:30

In London the GLA part is as high as the borough part for some...

MissLucyLiu · 26/03/2023 13:33

£2,670.22 a year to £2,785.15 , going up by 4.3%

SquashPenguin · 26/03/2023 13:33

We’re in a 5 bed band D in Wales. Gone up by about £8 a month to £1800 a year or thereabouts.

RollerCoaster2020 · 26/03/2023 13:40

£122 a month with 25% single person discount on full amount of £1806 p.a. band C 7 bedroom terrace Hampshire

BeanzToastie · 26/03/2023 13:45

Smallish three bed end of terrace in London suburbs = £2400/year

Tomorrowillbeachicken · 26/03/2023 14:05

Band a, 128 a month for ten months, midlands, three bed mid terrace

BooseysMom · 26/03/2023 17:08

I didn't realise you can look up the actual council tax for every property! It shocked me to find that we pay just £20 less per year than a huge 4 bed detached up the road! We are band C, only a 2 bed, paying £145 p/m soon to increase to £154. It's very unfair.

Nw22 · 26/03/2023 17:11

Band c, northwest, 2100 a year. 4 bed semi

IhearyouClemFandango · 26/03/2023 17:13

Band c, isle of wight. 4 bed semi. Now £2189 p/a, 5.3% up on last year.

Paid over 10 months so averages £219.

I don't begrudge council tax, but I do begrudge the govt cutting local council funding to the point that they make local govt the bad guys when they have to increase funding somehow.

BooseysMom · 26/03/2023 17:22

BooseysMom · 26/03/2023 17:08

I didn't realise you can look up the actual council tax for every property! It shocked me to find that we pay just £20 less per year than a huge 4 bed detached up the road! We are band C, only a 2 bed, paying £145 p/m soon to increase to £154. It's very unfair.

Oops, sorry meant £20 more per month, not year!

GiltEdges · 26/03/2023 17:33

3 bed Band E (Yorks), gone from £1848 to £1950.

Original poster
Nothing2lose · 26/03/2023 17:38

CallieQ · 26/03/2023 00:12

@Nothing2lose are you going to share yours

Of course more than happy to.

Enquiring on a one bed property in Hampshire. £1860 per year.

OP posts:
Prometheus · 26/03/2023 17:40

We’re band F and our council tax has gone up over £600 a year since we bought our house just over four years ago!!!

megletthesecond · 26/03/2023 17:47

Hampshire. 3 bed terrace.
£129 a month. That's with the single person discount.

samsam123 · 28/03/2023 20:35

330 a month Bucks

happysunr1se · 28/03/2023 20:54

Ours has gone up 13.9%, band D, 3 bed small terrace gone up to £187 per month.Thanks Croydon council :( hope you spend it wisely and don't bankrupt yourself for the 4th time!

MojoJojo71 · 28/03/2023 21:04

£110 , up £8 per month from last year

2 bed flat in the North East, Band C, 25% single discount

Hereandgoneagain · 28/03/2023 21:11

Wales: Band F £2726, 3 bed semi.
Not complaining though, we were lucky enough to win an appeal on our previous Band H rating which would have been £3775 for this year!

Asdf12345 · 28/03/2023 21:52

About £3.5k.

FLOWER1983 · 29/03/2023 07:20

happysunr1se · 28/03/2023 20:54

Ours has gone up 13.9%, band D, 3 bed small terrace gone up to £187 per month.Thanks Croydon council :( hope you spend it wisely and don't bankrupt yourself for the 4th time!

We are band C with Croydon 2 bed flat and just got a bill £199 a month/ for 10 months. Is yours over 10 or 12 months?

happysunr1se · 29/03/2023 07:31

That's £187 over 12 months