Brighton and Hove City Council has voted to put up council tax bills by 4.99 per cent from April.
The Brighton and Hove element of the average band D council tax bill will rise by £94.03 from £1,883.63 to £1,977.66.
The full amount for the average band D council tax bill for the Brighton and Hove area for 2024-25 will also include precepts from the Sussex police and crime commissioner and the East Sussex Fire Authority which have not yet been set.
The police and crime commissioner precept is to go up by £13 for a band D property – from £239.91 to £252.91.
And the East Sussex Fire Authority precept is rising by £3.12 or 2.99 per cent for a band D property – from £104.37 to £107.49.
In the current financial year, overall band D bills in Brighton and Hove were £2,227.91 – up £109.60 from £2,118.31. This was the equivalent of £185.66 a month or £42.84 a week.
From April, overall band D bills will go up £110.15 from £2,227.91 to £2,338.06 – or almost £194.84 a month or £44.96 a week.
And people in a few areas of Brighton, such as those in the Rottingdean parish, will receive a slightly higher bill.
Council tax funds about a fifth of overall council spending, with the rest coming from grants, business rates, fees, charges, commercial rents and other income streams.
The council tax rise was voted through as the council passed a £1.1 billion budget for the coming financial year.
Much of the government grant funding is ring-fenced, such as the dedicated schools grant.
In the coming weeks, members of policy committees will go through the capital spending programme, learning exactly which big projects will be funded in the year ahead.
Pensioners robbed again. Pension rises should at least match rate rises. If not, where do they think pensioners are going to magic up the extra?
All pensioners make a will asap if not already done so. Stop grasping govt snatching all your hard won and already taxed cash. If no family, leave it local charities.
The state pension is going up 8.5% in April, a far higher percentage than the 4.99% rise in council tax and higher than what nearly all of the working population will get.
So, once one factors in the freeze on Personal Allowance and therefore any increase that sees anyone past the PA threshold (£12570) will lose a certain amount of any rise in additional tax, the amount received by any individual has already shrunk. Thus, a 4.99% increase to an already excessive amount will impact (as ever) the most vulnerable.
Not at all. 8.5% out of £100. CT 5% out of £1,000. Working population 10% out of £500 per week. Have you done your maths lesson now ?
If you want to ignore percentages and look at pound increase. The annual state pension is increasing by £902.20, a band D property (oh how nice it would be to afford one) is going up by £110.15 for the year as per this article. So the state pension increase easily covers that.
The pound increase the average worker will get is hard to put a number on – so instead to share a bit of my own situation, as a full-time worker myself I’m predicting about a £1200 annual increase (far from 8.5%), but then I work full-time and enjoy all the tax and tuition fee repayments that come with that meaning it’s all taxed at 39% and I’ve had a £400 per month increase in mortgage repayments to enjoy also.
Would you like me to teach you that maths lesson?
That said, the whole system of local authority funding and council tax needs to be overhauled.
Too many people too few working too much spent on COVID no cash in the bank. We are all suffering to some level
What is it spent on ? Theres no police around ,no cctv in town the roads and pavements are all broken graffiti is everywhere no public toilets the list goes on ….
Don’t worry the council still have money to do endless pointless improvements that nobody wants ripping out perfectly good working doors and windows for inferior products. At the same time ignoring people’s pleas who are desperate for genuine improvements. Endless money for so called improvements to council properties needing constant access to homes to constantly disturb seriously ill people forcing them to live in building sites for weeks on end. Spending endless money to send threatening letters to some people who have just months to live. We not focus the cash on repairs that actually need it and the people who can give access.
Why are they continuing with VG3?
£6million cost to local taxpayer.
Increased pollution / congestion.
Council’s own consultants advised against it
Can cllr Muten please explain his rationale for this?
For what? In order to charge for something or justify a cost increase an organisation has to provide the full goods and services it is charging for, so it is unacceptable to be cutting them having ramped up the council tax. Even the council is not exempt from the Consumer Act 2015.
They absolutely are, Barry. Consumer rights act doesn’t apply to council tax in any way shape or form. Hope that helps!
It applies to all organsiations or businesses which take money from us in return for goods and services, thereby making us a ‘customer’
Where your court case against the Council then Barry?
More Money for councillors allowances
100% wrong.
They are set by an independent committee with no councillors on it.
That committee has not recommended any increases for this year.
The i360 running at a continuous loss costing the tax payer more each year hows that right ?
I realise now that all those years ago when I began my life, I should have listened to my mother’s advice:
Forget ambition. Just get a job at the council, look out the window all day at the world going by, pretend to look like you are doing something by pushing some paper around, and just think of your gold-plated pension when you get to 50.
I should have listened.
Indeed. Should you harbour more ambition and can handle the hoop jumping and politics, a career in the civil service awaits
Need to fund the woke enforcement, oh I mean police.
Everyone bashes the police until they need them. Hypocrisy at its finest.
The council isn’t responsible for the police service or its budget,
The Police and Crime Commissioner sets the council tax for the police service and tells all councils in the area how much precept to charge.
residents do that already, look at you council tax bill when you get it
Above inflation tax rise. More to theft from New Labour.
Look at councils across the country and you’ll Tory councils are also applying the maximum 4.99% rise
my pension increace gives me a magnificent £11,ooo per annum. fortunately l can let a room, which i do. that means l am ok, as my bills come to 600 per month. so people who think an 8 % increace on a state pension is a lot, are wrong. pensions in this country seem to be less than rest of europe. l did work most of my life, and still do a little, now that l am 80, and a female. l am not complaining just pointing out a few facts, paula