Dorset council tax: Find out what you will pay

By Lottie Welch

18th Feb 2021 | Local News

Find out what you will pay in council tax from April
Find out what you will pay in council tax from April

What you will pay?

Based on the five per cent council tax increase agreed at Tuesday's Dorset Council meeting, the following basic annual charges will apply – to which any town and parish council precepts must also be added.

The Dorset Council tax share of the charges from April is made up by a 1.997 per cent general council tax increase and a 2.995 per cent social care precept.

For the 'average' Band D house, the council's annual tax rate will be £1,779.39 to which has to be added the fire and rescue precept and the Dorset Police precept, bringing annual payments to £2,112.85 before any town of parish council precepts are added.

The full band payments for Dorset Council Tax only are –

A £1,186.26; B £1,383.97; C £1,581.68; D £1,779.39; E £2,174.81; F £2,570.23; G 2,965.65; H £3,588.78.

For the police authority the following additional amounts will have to be added –

A £170.39; B 198.78; C 227.18; D £255.58; E £312.38; F £369.17; G £425.97; H £511.16.

For the fire authority the following additional payments will apply –

A £51.92; B 60.57; C £69.23; D £77.88; E £95.19; F £112.19; G £129.80; H £155.76.

The combined payments of Dorset Council, police and fire will vary between £1,408.57 for a band A home, to £2,112.85 for the 'average' Band D home with Band H properties paying £4,225.70.

Parish and town council precepts have to be added, where these are charged. These vary from nothing in some areas to £242.76 in Bridport, £226.04 in Blandford, £198.21 in Dorchester, £226.70 in Gillingham, £102.91 on Portland, £156.62 in Shaftesbury, £225.76 in Sherborne, £213.37 in Sturminster Newton, £157.15 in Swanage, £203.09 in Wareham, £185.69 in Weymouth and £135.14 in Wimborne Minster.

With all charges and precepts added a Band D home in Dorchester from April will pay a total of £2,311.06 or £44.45 per week, equivalent of approximately £6.35 per day.

Spending

The council's biggest areas of spending are adult social care and children's services, accounting for £124.9m and £52.8m respectively; street cleansing, waste collection and disposal accounts for £27.4m; travel £13.3m; education and learning £14.4m; customer services including libraries and archives £6.5m; environment and wellbeing £5.4m; housing £3.5m; highways and parking £2.9m (although in a normal year this also produces around £6m in income); communities and public protection £3.1m; planning £3.2m; property costs £2.7m; supporting businesses and job creation £1.2m with £29.6m on corporate services and £12m on central finance.

It gives the council a total budget for the year of £312.4m.

     

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