Full list of every Council Tax bill rise in | U.Ok.Finance News
Households in six areas of England are being instructed to brace for eye-watering council tax bill will increase from Tuesday, April 1 after the federal government gave them native authorities particular permission to raise payments past regular legal limits.Usually, native councils can’t raise council tax by 5% or more in a single financial yr with out triggering a native referendum however a number of cash-strapped councils this yr are asking their residents to pay up to twice that quantity more from April 1. Council tax is a bill often paid in 10 month-to-month instalments all year long which pays for native providers resembling bin collections, libraries, street repairs, parks and social care.The average annual band D bill, the usual measure of council tax, shall be £2,280 together with all precepts this coming financial yr, an increase of £109 on 2024-25 and 20% rise on 2021-22, when the average bill was £1,898.With many councils combating their funds, most are passing on a 4.99% price hike, with 88% of households in England dealing with not less than that degree of increase. In whole, 153 councils are raising payments by not less than 4.99% – see the total list under.But residents of Bradford shall be hit with a 9.99% increase in their payments from April.In Somerset, payments will rise by 7.49%, whereas London borough Newham, and Berkshire’s Windsor and Maidenhead council will hike payments by 8.99%.Birmingham can be making its residents pay an additional 7.49% from April whereas Trafford Council will raise payments by 7.49%.Outside of England, Falkirk in Scotland raised council tax by 15%.In Bradford, it means the most affordable Band A properties pays an additional £113.34 per yr, whereas Band B properties an additional £132.23 per yr.A Band D property – the UK average – pays £2,219.65 per yr in Bradford from April, not together with parish precepts on high. Those dwelling in Ilkley, for instance, shall be made to pay one other £56.97 on high in a Band D home to fund Ilkley Parish Council.Bradford Council mentioned about its rise: “Following a request submitted in January, Government has now granted permission for a 9.99% increase in council tax in Bradford District for 2025/26. This will be formally reported to council in March, when the council will meet to decide its budget, including a final decision on setting council tax levels for the coming year.“Government recognises that Bradford Council has been one of the hardest hit by the years of austerity and the least able to recover from this position because of its comparatively very low council tax. This is why we are one of only six councils in the country which are being allowed to increase beyond 4.99%.“We are trying wherever possible to find new ways of working and new funding sources so that we can save money for council taxpayers without cutting vital services. But by increasing council tax now, in many cases by £2 or £3 a week, we can avoid significant borrowing costs of £111 million for Bradford council taxpayers over the next 20 years and protect services in the longer term.”The largest council tax bill rises in England from April 2025:Bradford – 9.99%Newham – 8.99%Windsor & Maidenhead – 8.99%Somerset – 7.49%Birmingham – 7.49%Trafford – 7.49%Every single council tax increase in England – full list:The figures for 2024/25 and 2023/24 are sourced from the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government.County councilsCambridgeshire 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.98%)Derbyshire 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 3.75%)Devon 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)East Sussex 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Essex 3.75% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 3.50%)Gloucestershire 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Hampshire 4.99% (2024/25: 4.998% 2023/24: 4.99%)Hertfordshire 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Kent 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.995%)Lancashire 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 3.99%)Leicestershire 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Lincolnshire 2.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Norfolk 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Nottinghamshire 4.84% (2024/25: 4.84% 2023/24: 4.84%)Oxfordshire 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Staffordshire 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Suffolk 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.00%)Surrey 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 2.99%)Warwickshire 4.99% (2024/25: 4.996% 2023/24: 3.94%)West Sussex 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Worcestershire 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.94%)– LondonBarking & Dagenham 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Barnet 4.98% (2024/25: 4.98% 2023/24: 3.80%)Bexley 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Brent 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Bromley 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Camden 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)City of London 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Croydon 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 14.99%)Ealing 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Enfield 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Greenwich 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Hackney 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Hammersmith & Fulham 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.80%)Haringey 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Harrow 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Havering 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Hillingdon 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Hounslow 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Islington 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Kensington & Chelsea 4.00% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 2.18%)Kingston-upon-Thames 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Lambeth 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Lewisham 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Merton 4.99% (2024/25: 4.999% 2023/24: 4.999%)Newham 8.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Redbridge 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Richmond-upon-Thames 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Southwark 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Sutton 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Tower Hamlets 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 2.00%)Waltham Forest 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Wandsworth 2.00% (2024/25: 2.09% 2023/24: 2.14%)Westminster 4.99% (2024/25: 4.98% 2023/24: 2.01%)– Metropolitan boroughsBarnsley 4.90% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 3.90%)Birmingham 7.49% (2024/25: 9.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Bolton 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 3.99%)Bradford 9.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Bury 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Calderdale 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Coventry 4.90% (2024/25: 4.94% 2023/24: 4.94%)Doncaster 3.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 3.99%)Dudley 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Gateshead 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Kirklees 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Knowsley 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Leeds 4.99% (2024/25: 4.98% 2023/24: 4.99%)Liverpool 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Manchester 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Newcastle-upon-Tyne 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 3.99%)North Tyneside 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Oldham 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 3.99%)Rochdale 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Rotherham 3.00% (2024/25: 3.50% 2023/24: 4.00%)Salford 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Sandwell 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Sefton 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Sheffield 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Solihull 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)South Tyneside 4.95% (2024/25: 4.95% 2023/24: 4.95%)St Helens 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Stockport 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 3.99%)Sunderland 4.49% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 2.99%)Tameside 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Trafford 7.49% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Wakefield 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Walsall 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 2.99%)Wigan 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Wirral 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Wolverhampton 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)– Unitary authorities(Note: the place figures for 2023/24 are n/a, it’s because the authority didn’t then exist in its present kind)Bath & North East Somerset 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Bedford 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 2.90%)Blackburn with Darwen 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Blackpool 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Bracknell Forest 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Brighton & Hove 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Bristol 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Buckinghamshire 4.99% (2024/25: 4.98% 2023/24: 4.9997%)Central Bedfordshire 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 0%)Cheshire East 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Cheshire West & Chester 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Cornwall 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Cumberland 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: n/a)Darlington 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Derby 3.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Dorset 4.99% (2024/25: 4.996% 2023/24: 4.00%)Durham 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)East Riding of Yorkshire 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.98%)Halton 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Hartlepool 4.99% (2024/25: 2.99% 2023/24: 4.90%)Herefordshire 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Hull 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Isle of Wight 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Isles of Scilly 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Leicester 4.99% (2024/25: 4.999% 2023/24: 4.998%)Luton 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Medway 4.994% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Middlesbrough 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 3.99%)Milton Keynes 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)North East Lincolnshire 3.98% (2024/25: 4.98% 2023/24: 3.98%)North Lincolnshire 4.89% (2024/25: 3.73% 2023/24: 1.74%)North Northamptonshire 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)North Somerset 4.99% (2024/25: 4.98% 2023/24: 4.99%)North Yorkshire 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: n/a)Northumberland 4.99% (2024/25: 4.59% 2023/24: 4.63%)Nottingham 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Peterborough 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Plymouth 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Portsmouth 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Reading 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Redcar & Cleveland 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 3.99%)Rutland 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Shropshire 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Slough 4.99% (2024/25: 8.50% 2023/24: 9.99%)Somerset 7.49% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: n/a)South Gloucestershire 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Southampton 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Southend-on-Sea 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Stockton-on-Tees 4.95% (2024/25: 4.95% 2023/24: 4.90%)Stoke-on-Trent 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Swindon 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Telford & Wrekin 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 2.00%)Thurrock 4.99% (2024/25: 7.98% 2023/24: 9.99%)Torbay 4.75% (2024/25: 4.75% 2023/24: 4.99%)Warrington 4.98% (2024/25: 4.98% 2023/24: 4.98%)West Berkshire 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)West Northamptonshire 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Westmorland & Furness 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: n/a)Wiltshire 4.50% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)Windsor & Maidenhead 8.99% (2024/25: 4.96% 2023/24: 4.96%)Wokingham 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)York 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%).
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