Got my Council Tax bill for 2009/2001. First payment of £4.40 and then 9 of £4 🙂

Got to love having your house rebanded 🙂

Got my Council Tax bill for 2009/2001

It’s coz you’ve gone back in time Mike 😉

Oops – there was a small child threatening to fall onto the laptop as I wrote that 🙂

/cry

first payment of £150 and then 9 more payments for £150….. for what 3 breakins in the last 3 months no police action, bins that have to be taken to the tip if i want them emptying frequently, and any comunity projects the council pay for shut down…. why because the local social care has over spent by over 3 million……..

happy days indeed well at least i have not been made redundent…… ohhhh wait wait yes i have dam.

My house jumped up a band after I bought it due to an extension the previous owners had put on; about £300 extra a year than I thought…takes it to about £2,400 a year – could buy a bike with that….

My house jumped up a band after I bought it due to an extension the previous owners had put on; about £300 extra a year than I thought…takes it to about £2,400 a year – could buy a bike with that….

OK thats makeing me feel a bit better.

Fellas, those expenses in Westminster have to be paid for by someone dont you know.

Our Council Tax would be just over a grand a year, if we were paying it this year 🙂

A: 922
B: 1076
C: 1230
D: 1383
E: 1691
F: 1999
G: 2306
H: 2767

The benefits of living in the town with the lowest council tax in the North East 🙂

Thats cheap anyway – mine is £130 a month for Band B and £15 a month more epensive than a mate who lives 300 metres up the road because he comes under a different town/village

Thats cheap anyway

Yep 🙂 I’d guess the North East is one of the cheapest regions for Council Tax, and we’re in the cheapest authority in the North East, and not in the right area for the ‘right’ schools, etc. so get cheaper houses – band B for a 3-bed semi with a big garden and a garage.

Is miketually’s area’s council tax low really? Band D is the base band and it looks about average to me.

Mine is £70 a month….

Band D average is ££1,414, according to http://www.24dash.com/news/Local_Government/2009-03-26-Average-council-tax-bill-to-rise-by-3-ONS

So you’re about average then? Why is Wales so cheap…!?

£4.40?!! I live in a box flat and pay 900 a year!

£4.40?!! I live in a box flat and pay 900 a year!

That’s just the first monthly payment though (actually, it’s £4.44). We have to pay another £4 a month for nine months too 🙂

(As the house has been rebanded, we’ve been overpaying since we bought the house nine years ago so had just over £1k in credit…)

I looked into my banding and found that the house next door which is apparently worth more than mine is in a lower band. Looking at other houses in the road it does seem that mine is right so wondered if I pointed out to the council that my neighbour is in a lower band than me in an attempt to get my house put into a lower one, maybe they’d end up in a higher one?!

£195 a month.

Robbing council ****.

its a ludicrous amount of cash aint it??

On another subject ive broken my collarbone so i cant drive at the moment. Went into town with the wee man today. 1.5 miles on a bus. £2.90 return What the fu@k.

Anyhoo, im £124 a month for a 2 bedroom flat. biggish garden tho. Cant remember my band but it hasnt increased in 3 years.

It just seems so much cash.

its a ludicrous amount of cash aint it??

Indeed.

The problem with Glasgow, as far as I can tell, is the fact they changed the city limits a few years ago and moved a lot of affluent areas into other local authorities thus creating a council tax region where 20% of the residents can’t/ don’t pay council tax therefore the rest of us have to subsidise it! 😡

well i live in dundee mate and i know im paying for a hell of a lot of people who refuse to pay or cant pay. And considering how much i already pay on tax in all its many forms it gets my goat up.

ah well….

Indeed.

What is infuriating is that I temped in council offices a few times whilst at uni, and the amount of cash wasted there was unbelievable. Endless meetings with biscuits and sandwiches supplied, vastly overstaffed departments, etc…
I worked in a department which needed labels printed regularly. Instead of batching them up 9 at a time, or getting an individual label printer, they always printed 3 per sheet and chucked the rest away. 🙁 I asked them why didn’t they get a new printer which wouldn’t waste so many labels, they said it was too expensive … (the printers are less than £100) Just one example, but typical of how things were run there.

That’s the poblem they aren’t run.

3 bed semi North London.

£200.90 a month :O(

Could buy an XT cassette for that.

£127 a month in Leeds, band D. Leeds is reasonably cheap by the looks of it.