{"id":23191,"date":"2019-03-01T11:52:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T11:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=23191"},"modified":"2019-03-01T11:52:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T11:52:26","slug":"cardiff-council-tax-increase-how-much-will-it-cost-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/cardiff-council-tax-increase-how-much-will-it-cost-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff Council tax increase &#8211; how much will it cost you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Council tax in Cardiff will rise by 4.9% after the council approved a new budget last night.<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThis means that if you are in a Band D property, you will pay an extra \u00a31.09 per week &#8211; about \u00a356 per year.<br \/>\nThe cost of cremations, burials and rehoming dogs will all increase.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Costs of cremations will rise from \u00a3560 to \u00a3640<\/li>\n<li>Burials will increase\u00a0from \u00a3660 to \u00a3760<\/li>\n<li>The cost of re-homing\u00a0a dog will go up by \u00a330 and a puppy by \u00a310<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The rise is more than double the rate of inflation (1.8% in January) and is set\u00a0to plug a \u00a332 million budget gap in Cardiff next year.<br \/>\nOn top of this, the council will make savings across all departments which could lead to more than 50 job losses\u00a0in street cleansing, waste management and libraries.<br \/>\n\u00a310 million has been set aside for schools and a further \u00a35 million for social services, the only two sectors to see their budgets increase.<br \/>\nThe value of Welsh Government grants to councils has dropped by \u00a3918.5m in 2017-18, compared to 2009-10. The Welsh Government claim to have offered the &#8220;best possible settlement&#8221; after nine years of austerity.<br \/>\nJoe Boyle, leader of Cardiff Liberal Democrats says their amendment to the budget which was voted down would have: &#8220;put an additional \u00a3500,000 into services for rough sleepers, whilst at the same time keeping council tax down to 4%.<br \/>\n&#8220;We think this is a missed opportunity to put really important money into an area that is a real problem in our city, unfortunately the Labour budget misses that opportunity.&#8221;<br \/>\nMeanwhile, the future of the New Theatre in Cardiff is uncertain after the council announced their intention to privatise it.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23228\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23228\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-23228\" src=\"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/WhatsApp-Image-2019-03-01-at-11.32.59-525x394.jpeg\" alt=\"The New Theatre in Cardiff-currently run by the council\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23228\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-23228\" src=\"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/WhatsApp-Image-2019-03-01-at-11.32.59-525x394.jpeg\" alt=\"The New Theatre in Cardiff-currently run by the council\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" \/><\/noscript> The New Theatre in Cardiff-currently run by the council<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe lease is being advertised in a bid to save the council over \u00a3400,000 per year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Council tax in Cardiff will rise by 4.9% after the council approved a new budget last night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":243,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,6,18],"tags":[21,493,205],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-23191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-slider-story","tag-cardiff","tag-cardiff-council-budget","tag-council-tax"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cardiff Council tax increase - how much will it cost you? 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