The full council will now consider the budget at a meeting on February 22. Bradford Council says more than 38,000 households throughout the district already receive their council tax bills by email. This means council tax for Band D will increase by £81.63 over the year. COUNCIL tax is on the agenda as Eden District Council puts forward its proposed budget for the coming year. However, there will be a 1.99 per cent hike in council tax and a three per cent social care surcharge. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has urged the Prime Minister and the Chancellor to guard pandemic-hit family budgets by protecting them from “absurd” council tax rises this spring. Fees and charges for services are to be increased by an average of three per cent – … Tendring Council wants residents to pay more as part of their council tax bills for 2021/22 due to continued Government cuts and to help the district recover from the impact of Covid-19. Instead they say the ‘moderate’ increase delivers a ‘fiscally stable’ budget. RESIDENTS in the Braintree district will be able to worry about their wallets a little bit less after council bosses announced a tax freeze. Changes to the general fund budget will see a three per cent rise in council tax. Stoke-on-Trent City Council, Newcastle Borough Council, Staffordshire Moorlands District Council and Stafford Borough Council are yet to approve their 2021/22 council tax rises. The extra cash in the district council's pocket would also help stabilise its finances for the medium term. Council tax is split between the county council, the Police and Crime Commissioner, the six district and borough councils in the county and the dozens of smaller town and parish councils. There will be a delay to planned welfare rights cuts of £844,000. Band A: £1,265.58 Band B: £1,476.52 Band C: £1,687.45 Band D: £1,898.38 BRADFORD Council is encouraging residents to go paperless with their Council Tax bills this year. The housing revenue account budget plans to increase council tenant rate by 1.5 per cent to £105.32 per week. The Labour budget involves dipping into reserves to the tune of £6.4 million, as well as the council tax increase. BUDGET plans which would see residents pay 4.99 per cent more council tax from April have moved a step closer to final sign-off. The Vale currently has the 15th lowest council tax in the country for a shire district and significantly lower than the national average of £194.22. CRAVEN District Council is (proposing) raising its share of your council tax this year by £5 per annum for an average household. BROMSGROVE councillors have agreed a 2.19% council tax rise after rejecting calls for a freeze. The county council approved its £485m budget for 2021/22 when it met yesterday, funded by a council tax rise of 2.99 per cent. Braintree Council has agreed to freeze its share of the council tax for the coming year in light of the financial strain the pandemic is putting on residents. Some residents prefer to pay over 12 months instead – but you should call or email your district council as soon as possible if you wish to do this. And council staff will receive a two per cent pay rise. Most council tax bills stagger the payments equally over ten months, with councils encouraging residents to set up direct debits where possible. According to the reports, available on the council’s website: “There is a proposed increase of £5 on band D equivalent properties in the council’s part of the council tax … It means, together with increases made by other authorities, that the average, Band D , householder will pay a total of around £2,002, about £60 more than the around£1,942 for the current financial year. According to the council’s medium term financial plan, the average Band D property in the district will see their council tax go up by £5. A THIRD East Lancashire district local authority is set to increase it council tax by 1.99 per cent from April 1. The change shown on your bill is the change from the combined amounts for 2019/to 2020 for your district council and the county council compared to the new change for Buckinghamshire Council. A £5 council tax increase for the average Band D property was agreed by the executive committee and three in five respondents support the proposal, while a third disagree. HAMBLETON District Council cabinet has recommended to full council that council tax should be frozen for residents. At a meeting of Cheshire West and Chester Council’s cabinet this afternoon (Wednesday, February 10), councillors voted to send the authority’s budget for full council … As there are different rates of council tax across the county this means that the change in your council tax will depend on where you live. The authority is seeking to up that figure and as part of the latest push, over 14,000 people have signed-up to paperless billing this month alone. Craven District Council - in possibly its last budget setting - agreed an increase of £5 per year to its part of the tax from April. BRADFORD Council has agreed to its budget for the upcoming year, which will include a 4.99 per cent tax rise, during an at times ill-tempered meeting.. North Yorkshire County Council, with a much larger cost base, will be raising its share by £48 (nearly 10 times as much) (Council tax rise still ‘good value’, 11 February 2021). South Lakeland District Council (SLDC) received reports that a person, pretending to be from SLDC, had rung individuals asking for bank details so they could receive a tax refund. Among the changes proposed as part of this budget for the coming financial year is a suggested increase in council tax equivalent to a rise of £5 per year for a Band D property. That means the remaining authorities will also set their new council tax rates over the next month, contributing to the total bill for each household.