It’s that time of year when the new Council Tax bills are about to be sent out by Harrogate Borough Council (HBC). Your council tax pays for about 750 local services in our community.
It’s HBCs job to collect the entire council tax bill. They retain just over 12p in every £1 to cover the cost of the services they provide. 70p from each £1 of your council tax goes to North Yorkshire County Council, 14p pays for North Yorkshire Police and roughly 4p is for the North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue service.
Your bill also includes a sum, or precept, paid directly to us, the Parish Council. This sum is our main source of income for the financial year and enables us to provide services such as grass cutting, maintaining the recreation field and children’s play area and looking after other community assets in the parish. It also covers the cost of the day to day running of the Parish Council.
For the financial year 2021-2022 we have kept the parish precept the same as last year, at £6,355 and chosen to fund the excess of projected expenditure over income from our reserves. A summary of our precept calculation for next year is shown below.
This precept amount is then divided by the number of properties in the parish that fall into council tax band D, in the same way as your Harrogate Borough Council council tax is calculated. The resulting amount per household is then added to your Council Tax bill.
Further details of our budgets, reserves, income and expenditure are available in the Our Business > Our Finances section of the website.
