{"id":25077,"date":"2020-02-28T18:09:32","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T18:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=25077"},"modified":"2020-08-19T11:53:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T11:53:25","slug":"cardiff-households-to-see-a-rise-in-council-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/cardiff-households-to-see-a-rise-in-council-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff households to see a rise in Council Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>People living in Cardiff will see a 4.5% increase in Council Tax from April this year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the annual budget meeting last night at Cardiff&#8217;s County Hall, the council cabinet celebrated a narrow victory, with 36 councillors voting in favour of the proposed budget to 34 against. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Conservative Party councillors all voted against the sharp rise in Council Tax and have themselves suggested a 1.9% rise. Conservative councillor, Adrian Robson who is leader of the opposition, believes far too much money is wasted and the services on offer aren&#8217;t good enough. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;The service that the council provides are not up to scratch&#8230; You hear countless examples of potholes being repaired several times, well that&#8217;s not economical .&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>  What does this rise mean?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the newly agreed Council Tax the average household will pay more than \u00a31400 a year. This is an average increase of \u00a363. Those facing the largest rise in Council Tax can expect to pay \u00a388 a year more than they do now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leader of the newly formed Welsh Nationalist Party, Neil McEvoy, is worried of the effect this rise could have on the most vulnerable in Cardiff. He says, &#8220;I&#8217;m thinking really of people who really struggle at the minute to pay bills, to stay afloat financially and they are hit with another tax increase.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/BroadcastCJS\/status\/1233404268708757505\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But the Labour Party, whose budget this is, thinks the annual increase is a small price to pay for improvements to services. Labour Councillor Stephen Cunnah says, &#8220;In percentage terms this is a 4.5% rise, but in actual terms you&#8217;re talking about around a pound a week for the average house. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s going to be a decisive things for families. I hope that families will be able to understand that&#8217;s a trade off for the services they receive.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Council Tax contributes to services such as waste collection, parking control and libraries. The rise will come into force in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People living in Cardiff will see a 4.5% increase in Council Tax from April this year. At the annual budget meeting last night at Cardiff&#8217;s County Hall, the council cabinet celebrated a narrow victory, with 36 councillors voting in favour of the proposed budget to 34 against. The Conservative Party councillors all voted against the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":220,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[743,1874,744,1775,1879],"tags":[465,26,129,238,1249,403,1854],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25077"}],"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\/220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25077"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25113,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25077\/revisions\/25113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}