How much is your Council Tax ?

Emp_Fab

I'm forced to hand over £161 a bloody month to "The City & County of Swansea" so their binmen can drop shit all over the road, refuse to take an ever increasing bizarre list of items and fat-arsed councillors to go on jollies to 'twinned' towns in Europe.

£161 a month !!! ... and it goes up each year !

I'm renting a house in Band E.  It's only just in Band E and I tried to get them to lower it, but they basically said "Fuck off, we need the money for a fact-finding trip to Turkey and by the way, we're twinning with the Maldives next year".

Bastards.

boogieman

Ours is double that. Consider yourself lucky.

not_the_dj

£133, Band C (I think).

ESchap

Do you have to provide it in used notes in a brown envelope each month?

VimFuego

think we pay about £1500

Drew_TNBD

£128 a month.

spark240

I have an empty property...50% extra council tax ..

musicegbdf

£220 per 10 month year . Water around £65  a month

Ray

ROOG

£130 ish for ten months a year, I do live in a shoe box mind! 

Evilmags

No idea as my renters pay it. Too much for the torture Ilsington council inflicts on residents and businesses.

Fretwired

Band H .. £2,948.26 per year.

Fuzzdog

£952 a year for band A here, before the 'you're on your own so have a few quid off you poor bastard' allowance.

NPP

83 with single occupancy discount - band C in Sheffield

Majorscale

I really don't get the banding idea...a family of 4 in a 3 bed house use the same quantity of services as a family of 4 in a five bed house. 

Danny1969

Try paying business rates at £1000 a month and for that your don't even get a rubbish collection

jd0272

£130 pm. Bins emptied once per fortnight.

Mind you, even after recycling, the amount of rubbish these four generate is unreal, so I use the local tip quite a bit.

ROOG

This rakes up the old; ability to pay vs size of your pad vs services used argument,  

Phil_aka_Pip

ROOG said:

This rakes up the old; ability to pay vs size of your pad vs services used argument,  

Persactly. Taxation should be based on ability to pay, not the perceived value of the place you live in. Extra services used can be paid for on use.

breakstuff

This is where direct debit is such a blessing because the thought of physically handing over such a large chunk of your monthly budget in cash to some money grabbing,corrupt bunch of tossers like our local council would drive me nuts.

holnrew

I don't pay anything being a student. No idea what it would be otherwise, but I'm in Band A.

ROOG

Phil_aka_Pip said:

ROOG said:

This rakes up the old; ability to pay vs size of your pad vs services used argument,  

Persactly. Taxation should be based on ability to pay, not the perceived value of the place you live in. Extra services used can be paid for on use.

You get "Extra services" through the council, wow very forward thinking out your way.