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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.
The nominal Band D property total is calculated by adding together the number of properties in each band and multiplying by the band ratio. So 100 Band D properties will count as 100 nominal Band D properties, whereas 100 Band C properties will count as 89 nominal Band D properties. Each collecting authority then adds together the Band D ...
As in England, the individual domestic rates bill was calculated by multiplying the rateable valuation of a property by the domestic poundage rate set by the local Council. Before the 1996 reform of local government , domestic rates were set by Regional Councils, and prior to the 1975 reorganisation , rates were set by County Councils.
Council tax bills have gone up for millions of households in England and Wales.
A leaflet explaining the Community Charge (the so-called "poll tax"), Department of the Environment, April 1989. The Community Charge, commonly known as the poll tax, was a system of local taxation introduced by Margaret Thatcher's government whereby each taxpayer was taxed the same fixed sum (a "poll tax" or "head tax"), with the precise amount being set by each local authority.
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.
City of Doncaster Council is the local authority of the City of Doncaster, a metropolitan borough with city status in South Yorkshire, England. Prior to being awarded city status in 2022 the council was called Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council. The council is based at the Civic Office in Waterdale, central Doncaster. It is one of four ...
Domestic rates are the local government taxation in Northern Ireland.Rates are a tax on property based on the capital value of the residential property on 1 January 2005. . Domestic rates consist of two components, a regional rate set by the Northern Ireland Assembly and a district rate set by local counc