{"id":23243,"date":"2019-03-05T10:24:38","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T10:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=23243"},"modified":"2019-03-05T10:24:38","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T10:24:38","slug":"methyr-tydfil-council-tax-to-rise-6-from-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/methyr-tydfil-council-tax-to-rise-6-from-next-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Merthyr Tydfil council tax to rise 6% from next month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Council tax in Merthyr Tydfil will increase by 5.99% from April, as the Council moves to plug a \u00a314.9m million budget deficit.<\/strong><!--more--><br \/>\nThe proposals were approved in a vote last night.<br \/>\nBudget cuts will see hits to community care support services, voluntary redundancies and school lunches. The cost of school lunches will rise by 20p per meal.<br \/>\nThe rate of inflation in the UK is 1.8%, but confirmed council tax increases in South East Wales average 5.8%.<br \/>\nMerthyr&#8217;s rise is just one in a series of high council tax hikes across the region.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Methyr Tydfil:\u00a05.99% rise<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Caerphilly:\u00a06.95%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Cardiff: 4.9%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Newport: 5.95%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Bridgend: 5.4%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Vale of Glamorgan: TBC. <\/strong><em>A\u00a0rise of 4.9% was voted down last month, but any potential increase has to be approved before the 11 March deadline<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Rhondda: TBC.\u00a0<\/strong><em>Councillors will vote on a proposed rise of 3.6% tomorrow<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On top of council tax, residents pay various additional community costs and contribute to the South Wales Police budget &#8211; know as &#8216;precepts&#8217;.<br \/>\nThe South Wales Police precept has been confirmed to rise by 10.28%.<br \/>\nThe National Assembly for Wales has the power to cap local authorities&#8217; council tax rises deemed &#8216;excessive&#8217;.<br \/>\nBut above-inflation rises in council tax have become a regular occurrence across Wales. Some of the highest rises this year include council tax in Pembrokeshire, which is going up by nearly 10%, and an increase of 9.6% in Conwy.<br \/>\nAll confirmed council rises in South East Wales are above the average of rises in England.\u00a0Analysis by the Chartered Institute of Public finance &amp; Accountancy shows that council tax in England will increase by 4.5% on average this year.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<em>Image credit:Jaggery<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Council tax in Merthyr Tydfil will increase by 5.99% from April, as the Council moves to plug a \u00a314.9m million budget deficit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"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":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-23243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-slider-story"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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