Non-motoring > Council Tax increase?	Miscellaneous
Thread Author: Crankcase	Replies: 28

New Thu 28 Mar 13 08:14   Council Tax increase? - Crankcase

I guess everyone has had their paperwork with the notification of this year's tax by now. How much has yours gone up by? Mine is £48 more over the year. Last edited by: Crankcase on Thu 28 Mar 13 at 08:15 Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 28 Mar 13 08:19   Council Tax increase? - CGNorwich

£7.10 per annum Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 28 Mar 13 08:21   Council Tax increase? - Crankcase

Interesting. I thought mine seemed steep. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 28 Mar 13 08:34   Council Tax increase? - Dog

Bout £27 I think (1.97%), but I'll have to ask the missus. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 28 Mar 13 08:46   Council Tax increase? - Dutchie

Small increase about 5 pounds.Rates are high here East Riding of Yorkshire they must think we have money. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 28 Mar 13 09:10   Council Tax increase? - Haywain

No change in Bury St Edmunds Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 28 Mar 13 09:17   Council Tax increase? - Ambo

0.53% in Poole. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 28 Mar 13 09:18   Council Tax increase? - Alanovich

Up by a tenner a month. Think that makes me the winner (!) so far. Zero increase last year (Lib/Tory coalition), stonking rise this year (Labour). Well voted, Reading (rolling eye smiley). Last edited by: Alanović on Thu 28 Mar 13 at 09:19 Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 28 Mar 13 09:21   Council Tax increase? - Fenlander

Ours up about £15/yr... but still good value for the house type. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 28 Mar 13 09:22   Council Tax increase? - Crankcase

I'm going to have to have another look at the paperwork at my next opportunity. I see online that South Cambs have only put it up by a fiver a year or thereabouts, so I can't now recall where the other 43 quid is coming from. I can't believe it's the Parish Council, but it must be somewhere. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 28 Mar 13 09:25   Council Tax increase? - Stuartli

Mine has stayed the same (Sefton MBC), but others have had a slight increase. Would have thought it should go down in view of the many cuts made to date..... Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 28 Mar 13 09:26   Council Tax increase? - madf

Cons Staffs Moorlands. No change.. (Large scale on going admin cost savings) Last edited by: madf on Thu 28 Mar 13 at 09:27 Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 28 Mar 13 09:35   Council Tax increase? - CGNorwich

Here's your answer www.cambridge-news.co.uk/News/Councils-hiking-tax-accused-of-flagrant-democracy-dodging-28012013.htm Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 28 Mar 13 09:41   Council Tax increase? - Robbie34

Up by £110. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 28 Mar 13 09:47   Council Tax increase? - Alanovich

Cor, just a tenner short of mine there, Robbie. Where are you? Let me guess - Labour council? Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 28 Mar 13 09:51   Council Tax increase? - RichardW

No change in Council tax in South Lanarkshire, but water rates (Which we pay with CT in Scotland) have gone up £14 / year. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 28 Mar 13 10:05   Council Tax increase? - DP

Up by £56 (Hart, Band D). Compared to the double digit percentage increases year after year during the Labour government years, the past few have been delightful. The council tax at our old place doubled in the six years we were there. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 28 Mar 13 10:33   Council Tax increase? - Stuu

No change here. My council tax has been the same for 3 years now ( Conservative council ). Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 28 Mar 13 11:30   Council Tax increase? - Haywain

During the reign of the Labour government, our council built itself a vast glass palace that would make an Audi dealership look like a shanty town; meanwhile, other administration buildings in the town stand empty. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 28 Mar 13 12:21   Council Tax increase? - sooty123

Ours is up about £3, less than 0.5%. Pity the water bill is up 15%... Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 28 Mar 13 12:30   Council Tax increase? - madf

It is hard to believe in this day but Stoke on Trent council moved their offices from Hanley to Stoke - two of the seven towns of the Potteries - about 15 years ago. All new offices. They are now going to move back to Hanley again - in new offices again. This from a council which is deeply in debt and shown on TV as financially incompetent. No prizes for guessing which Party runs it and has done for decades. (after rate rises for the past two years, they may freeze them this year) Last edited by: madf on Thu 28 Mar 13 at 12:31 Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 28 Mar 13 12:56   Council Tax increase? - Meldrew

South Kesteven (Lincs) up 0.6%. The services are very good, except pot hole repair, inflation is well above that so overall, well pleased Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 28 Mar 13 12:58   Council Tax increase? - sooty123

>> South Kesteven (Lincs) up 0.6%. except pot hole repair, you can say that, the roads are shocking round here. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 28 Mar 13 13:14   Council Tax increase? - Meldrew

Are you in Lincs/Kesteven sooty? The main problem is crumbling edges of minor roads, in my experience. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 28 Mar 13 13:24   Council Tax increase? - sooty123

Yes I am. I've noticed up towards Grantham it's in the 'running line' across large parts of many roads. The area around Cranwell is bad as well. Yes crumbling is bad around the Boston area on the back roads, some of them have reduced speed limits it was that bad. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 28 Mar 13 13:04   Council Tax increase? - crocks

If Alanovic is the winner then I'm the loser! £3.12 less this year. Third year of no increase from the local council and a reduction from the Greater London Authority. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 28 Mar 13 14:02   Council Tax increase? - TheManWithNoName

0.21683% increase or £2.80 higher. Our increase is due to Police, Fire or county council bunging their bit up. Can't complain. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 28 Mar 13 14:12   Council Tax increase? - TeeCee

>> and a reduction from the Greater London Authority. Presumably that's an effect of Boris dismantling the newt-fancying trot's empire. Also, maybe that particularly high profile glass palace is now paid for? I particularly enjoyed Dan Hodges' account recently in the Telegraph, of a pointless and very expensive Venezuelan junket he went along on for TfL under Ken's aegis. Very amusing and well worth reading. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 28 Mar 13 14:54   Council Tax increase? - Meldrew

It is rented! City Hall was constructed at a cost of £65 million on a site formerly occupied by wharves serving the Pool of London. The building does not belong to the GLA but is leased under a 25-year rent. Reply to this message | Report message