Yorkshire local authorities announce proposed council tax rises - full list

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Residents in Bradford will see a 4.99 per cent increase in council tax, only a year after it was hiked by 9.99 per cent.
53% : The council tax announcements come after the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) recently reformed the local government finance system in a bid to to focus on deprivation over rurality, alongside multi-year settlements.
53% : However, in certain councils, such as North Yorkshire, any rise in funding is dependent on raising council tax by the maximum amount every year.
51% : Unless they are granted special permission from the Government, local authorities must hold a public vote if they wish to increase council tax by more than 2.99 per cent, as well as adding 2 per cent onto the social care precept. South Yorkshire councils of Barnsley, where a 3.4 per cent rise was proposed, and Rotherham, where a 3.95 per cent rise is planned, were the only two not to hit this figure.
51% : A report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies found that the Government's "real-terms" increase in local authority funding is based on hikes in council tax.
51% : "New analysis shows that this depends to a large extent on an assumption of substantial real-terms increases in council tax bills: 3 per cent a year above inflation, on average, over the next three years," the respected think tank said.
49% : Councils across the region made up of all parties from Labour to the Conservatives, Reform and the Liberal Democrats will increase council tax by the amount capped before they need to hold a referendum.
47% : "Without these real-terms tax increases, overall council funding would grow at less than half the rate (3.8 per cent as opposed to 8.8 per cent in real terms) across England as a whole - and would actually fall in the less deprived parts of the country that stand to lose out from funding reforms.
46% : Meanwhile, Yorkshire's only council with a Reform majority, the City of Doncaster, has proposed to hike council tax by 4.99 per cent.
44% : "We used to have long debates about where we should fix council tax," North Yorkshire leader Coun Carl Les said.

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