{"id":330313,"date":"2025-08-09T10:29:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T10:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/330313\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T10:29:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T10:29:11","slug":"certain-households-in-england-face-567-rise-in-council-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/330313\/","title":{"rendered":"Certain households in England face \u00a3567 rise in council tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Labour Party Chancellor Rachel Reeves accused of &#8220;ultimate stealth tax&#8221; after allowing increases of 5 per cent a year.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0_council-tax.jpg\" alt=\"Certain households in England face \u00a3567 rise in council tax\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Certain households in England face \u00a3567 rise in council tax<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The areas facing \u00a3500 council tax rises have been revealed &#8211; with <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/your-money\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Labour Party Chancellor<\/a> Rachel Reeves accused of &#8220;ultimate stealth tax&#8221; after allowing increases of 5 per cent a year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The analysis by the TaxPayers\u2019 Alliance reveals that Gateshead faces the largest rise, with typical bills expected to be \u00a3567 higher there in 2028\/29. With maximum increases imposed, the bill for a Band D home would rise from \u00a32,578 to \u00a33,145.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Nottingham <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/your-money\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">(up \u00a3563 for Band D and \u00a31,126 for Band H) Rutland (\u00a3550 and \u00a31,100) <\/a>and Bristol (\u00a3549 and \u00a31,108) are also namechecked. Taxpayers in Dorset, Hastings, Oxford and Newark and Sherwood will also see increases of more than \u00a3500.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/cost-of-living\/state-pensioners-caught-guard-after-32192693\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">READ MORE State pensioners &#8216;caught off guard&#8217; after becoming &#8216;casualty&#8217; of HMRC<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The highest council tax bills will be in Rutland, where charges will increase from \u00a32,671 this year to \u00a33,221. Elliot Keck, head of campaigns at the TaxPayers\u2019 Alliance, said: \u201cCouncil tax is the ultimate stealth tax, given the way in which successive governments have piled on responsibilities to town halls without the resources to pay for them but with the permission to hike bills for residents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cAnd this Government clearly intends to continue this trend by allowing years of above-inflation council tax rises, further increasing the crippling tax burden on British families and workers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cBy the end of this Parliament, the grim milestone of the first \u00a33,000 Band D council tax bill will have been reached.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cLabour should impose lower, inflation-linked referendum caps on councils and aim for national solutions to crises such as that around social care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">It comes as Rachel Reeves has \u201cone hand tied behind her back\u201d as she considers how to balance the books next month in her first budget, according to experts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The IFS said Labour entered office faced with \u201cunenviable arithmetic\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cMerely avoiding spending cuts would \u2013 if debt is to fall \u2013 likely require raising tens of billions of additional revenue by 2028-29,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Labour Party Chancellor Rachel Reeves accused of &#8220;ultimate stealth tax&#8221; after allowing increases of 5 per cent a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[748,393,4884,16,15,961],"class_list":{"0":"post-330313","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-your-money"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}