Council Tax Bill

[CZ550Kevlar]

Sooooooo... Who got their council tax bill emailed to them today? My parish contribution went down 1% woohoo

My Police and crime commissioner payment went up 14.2% Bloody outrageous!! I pay more to the Police than I do to Dover Council. 

Everything else went up a few percent too.

[Westward]

Mobile speed camera vans aren't cheap to run and as for the helicopter that whizzes around all the time...

[Jaymo]

About 4% increase up here.

[CZ550Kevlar]

£171.69 to the Police, bloody shocking.

[bluesj]

1 minute ago, CZ550Kevlar said:

£171.69 to the Police, bloody shocking.

Maybe they will spend some of it on their firearms licensing team.

[Vince Green]

It seems to me that council tax valuations should be re-assessed. They are based on figures that are well out of date now.

Edited March 14, 2019 by Vince Green

[Walker570]

Big jump here and I live in a very small village, rarely see a copper, have my bins cleared once a fortnight and the lanes have potholes to frighten a Land Rover and they still take close to £300 a month out of my bank account. 

Bring back the Poll Tax everybody pay their fare share. 

[Yellow Bear]

13 minutes ago, Walker570 said:

Bring back the Poll Tax everybody pay their fare share

I agree with the fair share but I think it should be a local income tax.  

[snow white]

Bins emptied every three weeks here 

[Walker570]

................or based on the number of people in the house not on the value of the property and I mean everybody.   .

[Lord Geordie]

Between the council tax rise and the increase in the water bill this year it’s disgusting! Less policing, less council run services, schools, libraries, swimming pools closing and the state of the pavements, roads, streets unswept, now they want to install and pay a mayor an inflated salary. That’s just in Newcastle. And after MPs just gave themselves yet another hefty pay rise well above inflation yet again. 

[Wb123]

For most people the increase in the personal allowance will more than cover the change in their council tax, so I find it hard to get too wound up by this change. 

 

Its pretty clear around here that the funding for local services has been pretty much obliterated. I’d rather a few more quid on council tax off set by the reduction in income tax so I can see my money going to local services than pay more into the central pot to go wherever. 

[strimmer_13]

Mines gone up a fair percentage. It really annoys me as i know what they spend the money on. 

[Andy H]

Many  years ago leicestershire sent the council tax bill's out showing a pie chart of what it's spent on and in it was a substatial slice for public service pensions but that was not included in the text of the writeup , Boy did that cause   a bit  of  a ****storm and never again was a pie chart  used .

[Vince Green]

18 hours ago, Andy H said:

Many  years ago leicestershire sent the council tax bill's out showing a pie chart of what it's spent on and in it was a substatial slice for public service pensions but that was not included in the text of the writeup , Boy did that cause   a bit  of  a ****storm and never again was a pie chart  used .

Pensions are a big part of every council's expenditure 65% of my council's budget goes on wages and pensions

[JohnfromUK]

11 hours ago, CZ550Kevlar said:

Sooooooo... Who got their council tax bill emailed to them today? My parish contribution went down 1% woohoo

My Police and crime commissioner payment went up 14.2% Bloody outrageous!! I pay more to the Police than I do to Dover Council. 

Everything else went up a few percent too.

Much the same here; Parish contribution and District contribution frozen.  County Council contribution up (I think it was just under 5%)  Police and Crime Commissioner up by (I think about 10%).  I'm vague because I threw the explanation leaflet away in disgust.

[oldypigeonpopper]

hello, i am happy to pay extra to the TVP  to fund extra officers and support staff but why oh why do you need the Crime commissioners, what can they do better than the Chief Constable or who ever is in charge, TVP even have a Crime Commissions deputy, a former Council leader, talk about jobs for the ****** 

[Vince Green]

3 hours ago, oldypigeonpopper said:

hello, i am happy to pay extra to the TVP  to fund extra officers and support staff but why oh why do you need the Crime commissioners, what can they do better than the Chief Constable or who ever is in charge, TVP even have a Crime Commissions deputy, a former Council leader, talk about jobs for the ****** 

A lot of fairly mediocre council jobs carry eye watering salaries for no good reason that I can see. One of my step daughters was a housing officer for a London Borough on £47K a year. Even she could not see how they justified that much. She got the job having been doing exactly the same job for a housing association for a little over half that pay.

[Dibble]

36 minutes ago, Vince Green said:

A lot of fairly mediocre council jobs carry eye watering salaries for no good reason that I can see. One of my step daughters was a housing officer for a London Borough on £47K a year. Even she could not see how they justified that much. She got the job having been doing exactly the same job for a housing association for a little over half that pay.

Lambeth Council have 213 people on over £50,000 that's one for every 1620 of us.

 

Sum total of salaries for those 213 is £13,673,000 .

 

 

Edited March 15, 2019 by Dibble

[FishNchips]

 

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Edited March 15, 2019 by FishNchips
Why bother

[spanj]

5% increase in Liverpool but then we have 2 lots of mayors and a PCC to pay for..... all are pointless

[adzyvilla]

In Norfolk, they couldn't put the council tax up enough so they added an extra separate payment for 'adult social care'. But funnily enough, they still cut the funding for such things despite the extra income. Much the same as everyone else, services decline but tax goes up every year. Norfolk county council has an eyewatering pensions liability which will only get bigger and the poor unfortunate inhabitants are forced to pay. Much like the TV licence, council tax demands are becoming unsustainable, and they will eventually be forced to find a fairer means of funding local services.

Edited March 15, 2019 by adzyvilla

[team tractor]

Mines up about £80 a year I think . 

Its £133 a month so not all bad for a 4 bed house. If I move 1 mile away it’s £250 a month for the same size house at my parents but detached. Same bins, roads, lights, police etc .

[kenholland]

just come today ,£1435.22 for band c up £8 a month.

[Lloyd90]

28 minutes ago, adzyvilla said:

In Norfolk, they couldn't put the council tax up enough so they added an extra separate payment for 'adult social care'. But funnily enough, they still cut the funding for such things despite the extra income. Much the same as everyone else, services decline but tax goes up every year. Norfolk county council has an eyewatering pensions liability which will only get bigger and the poor unfortunate inhabitants are forced to pay. Much like the TV licence, council tax demands are becoming unsustainable, and they will eventually be forced to find a fairer means of funding local services.

Despite the extra income? 

Despite what you might think, local governments have had the money they receive from central government massively cut. 

There is no extra income, that extra charge is unlikely to put a dent in the amount they will lose from CG. 

 

Nobody wants to pay more taxes, but everyone expects to have top class public services. 

The Tories got absolutely slated when they tried to put charges for home care onto people's houses and make people pay for themselves, they lost loads of support with that idea, yet things like social care are enormously expensive and these days peoples' kids don't want to look after their elderly relatives, they expect the council to provide for their every need, an provide a top class service as well.