Council tax set for freeze after administration re-think

6:00pm Tuesday 22nd January 2013 in News

COUNCIL tax is to be frozen by Colchester Council next year following an administration U-turn.

Earlier this month, the coalition running the authority revealed it intended to increase its precept of the council tax bill by 1.95 per cent.

The average Band D taxpayer would have paid an extra £3.42 a year - about 7p a week.

But following a rethink, the Lib Dem group, the largest group running the administration has proposed a freeze at £175.23 for a Band D ratepayer.

The move was announced by council leader Anne Turrell at a finance & audit scrutiny panel meeting tonight.

She said: "We have been able to freeze council tax and have managed to find e money to keep council tax at a zero percent rise and the council is now eligible for £109,000 grant money from central Government."

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Comments(6)

jim_bo says...
6:16pm Tue 22 Jan 13

Anne Turrell announces tax freeze - Is that cos of the backlash on these pages ??

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Reginald47 says...
11:10pm Tue 22 Jan 13

Unlikely - any backlash on these pages over a rise of 7p a week says more about the intelligence of the people causing the backlash than it does about the council.

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Boris says...
12:08am Wed 23 Jan 13

Reginald47 wrote:
Unlikely - any backlash on these pages over a rise of 7p a week says more about the intelligence of the people causing the backlash than it does about the council.
Very true.
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A likelier reason could be that they can now collect £109000 from the government, which they would have forfeited if they had put council tax up. Not sure what that comes to in percentage terms but either way it is barely significant.

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mirokou says...
8:12am Wed 23 Jan 13

Boris wrote:
Reginald47 wrote:
Unlikely - any backlash on these pages over a rise of 7p a week says more about the intelligence of the people causing the backlash than it does about the council.
Very true.
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A likelier reason could be that they can now collect £109000 from the government, which they would have forfeited if they had put council tax up. Not sure what that comes to in percentage terms but either way it is barely significant.
Lets be realistic this town needs investment , they can afford to put up Council tax more than 7p a week and if used to make obvious improvements , such as the High street , retail units and pedestrian areas , etc then go ahead at 25p a week. You need to speculate to accumulate, lets attract the people that bring money in to town that want to invest and shop, if I see another Poundland style store open in this town..:-(

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wellnow says...
9:36am Wed 23 Jan 13

Yes rather suspect its more to do with simple maths that could have ended with more egg on the turrell visage.

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wellnow says...
1:41pm Thu 24 Jan 13

All the areas of our council tax seem to be lining up for increases so most probably this might result in a rethink on the rethink.

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