{"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":"2019-03-05T17:13:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T17:13:21","slug":"methyr-tydfil-council-tax-to-rise-6-from-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.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--><\/p>\n<p>The proposals were approved in a vote last night.<\/p>\n<p>Budget 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.<\/p>\n<p>The rate of inflation in the UK is 1.8%, but confirmed council tax increases in South East Wales average 5.8%.<\/p>\n<p>Merthyr&#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;.<\/p>\n<p>The South Wales Police precept has been confirmed to rise by 10.28%.<\/p>\n<p>The National Assembly for Wales has the power to cap local authorities&#8217; council tax rises deemed &#8216;excessive&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>But 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.<\/p>\n<p>All 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.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><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":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[743,744,750],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23243"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23291,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23243\/revisions\/23291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}