{"id":5384,"date":"2023-11-17T07:33:09","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T07:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/?p=5384"},"modified":"2023-11-17T07:33:13","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T07:33:13","slug":"council-tax-to-soar-by-as-much-as-120-a-year-treasury-proposes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/council-tax-to-soar-by-as-much-as-120-a-year-treasury-proposes\/","title":{"rendered":"Council tax to soar by as much as \u00a3120 a year, Treasury proposes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Council tax might rise by up to \u00a3120 per year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to new Treasury proposals, local governments may be permitted to raise taxes by up to 5% next year, reported by The Telegraph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From April, average family homeowners in Band D could face a council tax bill of more than \u00a32,000 per year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rutland Council charges Band D households the highest rate in the country, \u00a32,365.56.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If they increased their bills by 5%, the total would be \u00a32,486.21, a more than \u00a3120 increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other locations will see a \u00a3100 or \u00a3110 hike in their prices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inflation\u00a0is expected to fall but currently stands at 4.6%, meaning the rises are likely to exceed inflation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Local authorities will not decide until the new year by how much they will increase council tax.<\/p>\n<!-- wpsso rrssb get buttons: buttons on archive option not enabled -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Council tax might rise by up to \u00a3120 per year. According to new Treasury proposals, local governments may be permitted to raise taxes by up to 5% next year, reported &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Council tax to soar by as much as \u00a3120 a year, Treasury proposes\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/council-tax-to-soar-by-as-much-as-120-a-year-treasury-proposes\/#more-5384\" aria-label=\"More on Council tax to soar by as much as \u00a3120 a year, Treasury proposes\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4299,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[57,438,153,96],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5385,"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384\/revisions\/5385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}