Why your council tax could go up by 40 times the rate of inflation

[super jumbe]

The Government announced its settlement with England's local authorities today.

The bad news: the central government grant to local councils is being heavily slashed.

The good news (for councils): they can offset some of those losses by putting up council tax.

Councils have been told they can now increase the local tax by up to 2% each year (any level above this requires a local referendum).

In addition, the chancellor announced in the Autumn Statement that local authorities who run social care services can increase council tax by another 2%.




The social care precept is expected to add ?23 per year to bills for the average Band D property.

So in some local authority areas council taxpayers could see bills rise by as much as 4% in 2016/17.

Council tax payers are increasingly being asked to fill part of the black hole left by cuts in the central government grant.

But when inflation - as announced this week - is running at 0.1%, it means some English councils will be increasing council tax by 40 times the rate of CPI inflation.

In a statement to ITV News, Local Government Secretary Greg Clark said:

http://www.itv.com/news/2015-12-17/why-your-council-tax-could-go-up-by-40-times-the-rate-of-inflation/?ref=yfp

[Mjolinor]

If it can be 4% then in Burnley it will be. Every year they increase by the maximum allowed.

I reckon it has to be one of the highest in the country now.

[Meat-Head]

Don't get how they have to keep raising everything.

moderator, can this thread be edited to ever lasting poll.

vote for council tax increase for everybody

or

knobble national lottery so max prize is ?250,000 rest used to off set everybody
tax hospital etc rtc

[gmb45]

some ones got to pay fur all the cuts and as per its mr average, makes no diff to the rich as they will fiddle it back one way or the other, ang on the tories are all rich

[super jumbe]

Do you know they talk all BULLS when it come to bills look few years ago our council had too much money, they had to deposit our hard earn money in Iceland bank at the time they were offered more interest rate then British banks, look what happed the Iceland bank went bankrupt our council rise the council tax we had to put up with it, whose fault was that!!!

Council tax should be benefits for the people of that borough and any extra money left should be used for house repairs road works, gardening and not for gambling.

[GastonJ]

Dull is the same, always raises council tax to the maximum minus 0.1% so that there can't be a referendum. Tories cutting direct tax while picking your pocket., with the usual oily grin on their faces. Pay more for less as usual.