South Gloucestershire council tax set to rise by almost 5 per cent

South Gloucestershire council tax set to rise by almost 5 per cent View Image

Council tax for South Gloucestershire residents is set to rise by 4.99 per cent again from April. The local authority has announced the proposed increase – the maximum allowed without a local referendum – in its draft annual budget and has launched eight weeks of public consultation to get people’s views.

It says the government assumes council tax will go up by this amount each year, with every one per cent hike bringing in about £1.9million of extra funding for local services, while a lower rise would mean South Gloucestershire Council having to make more cuts.

The organisation says the consultation sets out the impacts of continued underfunding of local authorities across the country as costs and dem