The town bracing for UK’s biggest council tax rise of almost 16%

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/the-town-bracing-for-uks-biggest-council-tax-rise-of-almost-16-13327759

by pppppppppppppppppd

17 comments

  1. But council services will get better right and not cut…. Right….

  2. – Energy bills up 6%
    – Water Bills up 5-10%
    – Council Tax Bills up 5%
    – Tax Thresholds Frozen
    – Mass Layoffs and weak jobs market

    Things can only get better?

  4. I live in this council.

    Works out to be about £5, on average, per household, per week.

    In theory, i think they should have just made it 20%, instead of 15.6%, and gave us a rake of services back or paid it forward to stabilise the future.

    In reality, that wouldn’t have worked, as they’d have wasted the money in some arbitrary fashion, as these agency mugs do.

  5. What an annoying article. It repeatedly says rates have been frozen in Scotland for years, so i assume therefore that the existing council tax rate is actually quite low compared to the rest of the UK which see annual increases? Its just rage bait to say 16% increase without an actual figure and where that 16% is from probably quite a low starting point! How about a list of rates from across the UK to compare it to? Shitty article deliberately missing the point

  6. Council tax is the biggest rip off, it goes up, they do less and can’t even be honest about it trying to bullshit about not cutting grass or not collecting bins being good for the environment while they burn money on all sorts of stuff that no one asked for.

  7. While this article covers an important issue I can’t help feeling like it’s the laziest type of journalism. Equivalent to YouTuber reaction videos.

  8. Not really the councils fault, there’s so many people on benefits and low incomes not paying meaning those who do pay, pay more.

  9. Falkirk has the 10th lowest council tax in the country at present. It’s really not that big a deal. They’re nowhere near the top still.

    Rutland, the highest, has almost doubled the council tax.

  10. We’re all subsidising social care so Its not really council tax anymore, its national insurance.

  11. As much as I love Scotland they get an insane amount of subsidies.

    Don’t know why they’d ever leave the UK. 

    (As others have pointed out they froze council tax, water is included, free uni education (if that’s still a thing?)

    They get all that while getting all the other benefits we enjoy. While not having a huge economic output. 

    As rage baity as the title is it is due a rise, 16% in one year is silly though. 

  12. Council tax is a scam. It should be collecting bins, potholes, streetlights and libraries only.

    Let govt in Westminster pick up the tab for social care

    Esp when poor areas have too much social care and rich areas have hardly anything to worry about

  13. Councils faced major cuts in government funding during austerity and at the same time had massive increases in demands for services, mainly from looking after vulnerable children and adults. Try to square that circle

  14. Our council ta went up by 4.7%. That’s ok for my mum though because she’s got a triple lock pension.

    Normal people’s wages haven’t gone up by that much and that’s just one of dozens of bills that do the exact same every year.

    April is just companies having an utter field day to ensure ‘line goes up’ and put these rises in place regardless.

    The squeeze and con continues. Its never going to stop until we are all destitute. No more blood out of the stones we have become. Or something drastically changes in regards to taxing the super rich.

  15. I think a solution is to have more council tax bands. It makes no sense that a 5million property pays the same as a 400k (rough example). A percentage of property value would be more reasonable.

  16. You’ll pay more but your services will still be less. Oh and once it goes up, it’ll never come down

  17. A large chunk of that is going towards the council worker’s pension scheme.

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