What Council Tax is

Who needs to pay, how your bill is calculated, how it is spent.

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How we spend your Council Tax

For 2025 to 2026, we expect to collect £12.5 million from Council Tax. 

The money collected is used to fund the local services that we provide to you.

Council budgets for 2025 to 2026

The table below sets out our two budgets for the financial year.

  1. Our 'business as usual budget' shows our costs to deliver local services.
  2. Our 'budget' shows our full financial position including debt costs, commercial property income and change management costs.
Our business as usual budget (for local services) and full budget (including debt costs) for 2025 to 2026 
Spending on service areas Business as usual budget (£million) Budget (£million)
Communities: delivering housing, homelessness solutions, leisure and wellbeing services £5.5m £5.5m
Place: creating, maintaining and managing our borough's environment £3.7m £3.7m
Corporate resources: delivering property services and estate management and support services including IT, legal and democratic services, finance, customer services, human resources, revenue and benefits £7.5m £0.1m
Finance and corporate costs: debt repayment and inflation and corporate contingencies £6.9m £174.3m
Totals £23.6m £183.6m