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Council Tax is a local taxation system used in England, Scotland and Wales. It is a tax on domestic property, which was introduced in 1993 by the Local Government Finance Act 1992, replacing the short-lived Community Charge (also known as "poll tax"), which in turn replaced the domestic rates.
How tax levels this year compare with 2021/22.
Council tax was introduced in 1993 to replace the 'poll tax'. [62] It is a domestic property tax, based on eight bands (A to H) depending on the value of the property on 1 April 1991. [ 62 ] Various discounts are set out in law and exist at the discretion of billing authorities.
Rates in England and Wales in 1990 were briefly replaced with the Community Charge (so called "poll tax"), a fixed tax per head that was the same for everyone within a council area, a figure that could differ greatly per local authority.
Winter fuel payments based on council tax banding “would not be possible”, the pensions minister has warned, as she revealed the Government has not set a target for pension credit uptake.
Each collecting authority then adds together the Band D amounts for their area (or subdivisions of their area in the case, for example, of civil parish council precepts) to reach a total Band D council tax bill. To calculate the council tax for a particular property a ratio is then applied. A Band D property will pay the full amount, whereas a ...
He said Warwickshire's precept needed to go up by £14 a year or 27p a week for an average Band D household. 'Great strides' ... Police share of council tax could rise by 5% - PCC.
The Liverpool City Region is a combined authority area in North West England. It has six council areas: the five metropolitan boroughs of Merseyside (Liverpool, Knowsley, St Helens, Sefton, Wirral) and the unitary authority of Halton in Cheshire. [4] The city region had a population of 1,571,045 in 2022. [5]