For 2016/17 an increase of 3.5%
Wish I could get that rate on my savings
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Inflation is running at 0.3%
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Looked at mine the other day - I see the "police" bit is all of about £50. In a way it's a shame you can't have the option to say "tell you what, make that £100" and get a better police service.
£165 a month total, incidentally, dunno how that compares with the rest of the country.
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Ours is about £90 a month. I think that's pretty good.
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Scottish Council tax has been frozen for the past 8 years.
£1450 a year - would have been £2142 if the Council had increased
the tax by 5% year on year.
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Using D as baseline ours is £1557.55 for year including the parish levy.
Although no individual precept has increased more than 2.9% overall it's gone up by 3.4% this year - 70% goes to the county. Think it's been near frozen for a couple of years prior to that.
Also, there's an additional 2% from the County specifically for adult social care. As well as the aging population changes to minimum/living wage mean costs in that area are rising somewhat faster than measured by the retail or consumer price indices.
Work brings me into contact with CT bills for a large swathe of Eastern England and I think we're pretty typical. At end of day it's largely smoke/mirrors and dictat from central gov.
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You can check council tax for any property here.
www.gov.uk/council-tax-bands
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>> You can check council tax for any property here.
>> www.gov.uk/council-tax-bands
That'll give you the band together with a link to the billing authority's website. The link may or may not work and may only take you the Council homepage from where you'll have to drill down to the CT information pages.
That's best way if you've got the time and need an accurate result.
www.mycounciltax.org.uk/content/index will give an approximation but can be out of date and does not necessarily fully reflect Parish etc precepts.
Last edited by: Bromptonaut on Tue 22 Mar 16 at 13:12
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>>You can check council tax for any property here.
>>www.gov.uk/council-tax-bands
England only!
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3.64% increase here, making £183 per month (band F).
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Bury St Edmunds - band E. Monthly payment goes from £182 to £186 = 2.2%
I'm not too surprised, it was going to have to go up sooner or later; it had remained static for what must be about 6 or 7 after the years of profligacy under the Labour government.
I don't mind if it's spent on services rather than salaries/pensions for the grandees and extensions to the glass palace.
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Band B £1342 and up by 3.2% here in Fenland.
Pat
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Band D, £1573 and up 3.6% for me.
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Band A - about £1100. Plus about 3.5% from last year.
Last edited by: Roger. on Tue 22 Mar 16 at 14:08
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Band G and £2,700 for our unextended 1970s family cube. Probably the same as all the houses around us that have had bits added on and are now worth far more than ours. Revaluation? Doubt it; too many Tory-voters stand to lose.
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£2250 for our Band G lump - as mentioned above Council Tax has been frozen in Scotland for a number of years, although the water charge goes up.
Cottage in the Borders is about £1050 for Band C or D, but that includes a 10% discount for being a second home, and £300 off as it has private sewerage (mains water supply, however).
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Band F..........£2360.50.......3.7% increase.......£236 per month
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Band G here....2200 plus 4.5%...
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Makes you wonder about the banding of houses.
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I thought Crowded House were a good band. One of the original members, Mark Hart, plays with John Helliwell ( Supertramp) in the group Creme Anglais which JH formed.
As you were.
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>> I thought Crowded House were a good band. One of the original members, Mark Hart,
>> plays with John Helliwell ( Supertramp) in the group Creme Anglais which JH formed.
>> As you were.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag8XcMG1EX4&list=RDag8XcMG1EX4
some interesting cars in there too.
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>> Makes you wonder about the banding of houses.
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It certainly does. 'Twas a band E when we moved in, then they revalued it or whatever they do and put it up to an 'F'.
I queried it, because they erroneously included some building plans for a neighbour some way down the road, (who'd had a shed load of work done)... so they'd mixed up the two properties.
Eventually spoke to a lady in the Valuation Office Agency who told me she had been considering putting it up to a 'G' rather than an 'F' and if I stuck to my appeal I may well end up worse off.
Now i'm not stupid and considered she did that to get me to back off... trouble is, it worked.
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I dont make any noise when it comes to council tax. They have me as a D.
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I just looked at that banding website thingy.
Mine is a D, which of course I knew - but with an "improvement indicator" next to it - the only one in the street to have such an indicator.
Next door on one side is an A, and next door on the other is an F. That's probably reflected in prices - the Zoopla price for the band A next door (2 beds) is about £130k less than ours (3 beds), which in turn is about £400k less than the other side (4 beds I think).
It's all a bit bizarre, but all are different shapes, sizes and with different plots of land.
Incidentally, if anyone doesn't know about it, the Zoopla "we'll tell you how much your house is worth" site is here. I doubt it's VERY accurate, but gives you a flavour at least. Choose "house prices and values", obviously. Having said that, the cheaper house next to us sold a year ago and the Zoopla price at the time was just 5k adrift of the price they got.
www.zoopla.co.uk/
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>> I dont make any noise when it comes to council tax. They have me as
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Same here. We're still well under a grand per annum.
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>> >> I dont make any noise when it comes to council tax. They have me
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>> Same here. We're still well under a grand per annum.
Even at a D its 1.9 times that here
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If there is a re-banding exercise here, I'll have to keep a close eye on it. My house must be quite close to the top of a band, and it's perhaps the only house in the street that has not been extended. That coupled with a slightly smaller garden, but still huge by today's standards should mean it's the cheapest house in the street.
Mind you, if you really want to wince, look at business rates. My brother's shop pays over twice what a similar house would pay - is charged for rubbish removal and pretty obviously, is not a recipient of any of the benefits of the education budget.
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>>Mind you, if you really want to wince,
BUSINESS rates
Last office I worked in
800 sq feet Central Glasgow -£15K rates & nearly £3K water & sewage - we could have drunk Champagne & flushed the toilets with Champagne cheaper than the water supply.
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Band A = £1051.
Can't remember what is was last year.
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Wish we were on rateable value still - we have a rateable value of £130.00. ;-)
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>> Wish we were on rateable value still - we have a rateable value of £130.00.
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When I moved here in 1985 the property was still on an agricultural rating of £20 pa.
Since then it's gone up steadily to band F £1870 pa.
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Some whopping council tax bills on here.
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Band C here...about £1250. Looked on Zoopla out of interest and found a three bedroom unextended semi on our road up for sale at £310K. I was still under the impression that we were about a quarter of a million here.
Our house is a different one to that one but more sought after as it is a Georgian Villa with only a dozen built.
We gave £3750 for it in about 1970 and we were looking at spending no more than £2500 at the time. It was hard to get a mortgage as well. Now, you'd just bang it on your credit card !
We were big earners though....I think we raked in about £37 a week between us !
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Council Tax Bill - CGNorwich
