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March 2020
March 2020
Your council and
local information
Full information about Bristol’s council tax is
available at bristol.gov.uk/counciltaxexplained
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A message from the mayor
I respect your money. I know many With 12,000 people on the housing
of you have to make hard decisions waiting list and 600 households
to meet your council tax payments in temporary accommodation,
and it’s right we ensure we maximise building homes will continue at an
the impact of any of your money the accelerated rate.
council spends.
Walk around Bristol today and you
Since my election I have cut will see the cranes on the horizon as
management costs at the council by we continue to progress.
40%. During my administration we
have spent over £100 million less of Over the next few years, we will
public money using effective financial progress our underground system,
management to focus your money grow jobs in a diverse economy so
where it needs to be spent. that everyone can share in Bristol’s
success, double the number of trees in
Using taxes effectively, we have the city and grow food in every ward
protected all key services, protecting to fight food poverty and address the
children’s centre services, modernised environmental crisis.
libraries, increased school places,
cleaned our streets, strengthened the As part of achieving World Health
city’s cultural offer and started Bristol Organization age friendly community
on the road to clean energy and carbon status, we are enabling older adults
neutrality. Alongside this, we have to live independently with dignity for
committed to the workers who deliver longer and we are building three new
key services, making the council a secondary schools to improve choice for
living wage employer. parents and students. And, by enabling
three and a half thousand work
Bristol’s housing crisis remains our experience places, we are supporting
priority. Between 2016 and the end our young people fulfil their potential.
of this year, we will have built over
8,000 new homes. It’s an honour to Let’s keep on making the change
see families get their first home. Bristol needs.
facebook.com/marvinjrees Marvin Rees,
twitter.com/marvinjrees Mayor of Bristol
instagram.com/marvinjrees
For more information on the office of
the Mayor visit: bristol.gov.uk/mayor
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Council tax explained 2020/21
This information forms part of Exemptions
your bill Some homes are exempt from council
Each dwelling is allocated to one of tax, including properties occupied
eight valuation bands (A to H). Your solely by full-time students, people
bill states which band applies to your under 18, or people who are severely
dwelling and the relative amount of mentally impaired. Empty properties
council tax payable. owned by a charity are exempt for up
to six months.
Valuation appeals
Empty properties
If you feel your dwelling should be in a
different band, you should contact the The full charge is usually payable for
Valuation Office Agency online at: unoccupied properties. If the property
gov.uk/voa remains empty after two years you will
have to pay twice the full council tax
Grounds for appeal are restricted, but charge, and if it is still empty after five
include instances where: years you will have to pay three times
●●the size and value of the dwelling the full council tax charge.
has changed significantly However, if your property requires or
●●there is a change in use of part or all is undergoing structural alteration
of the dwelling (e.g. business use) or major repair you may get a 100%
discount for up to 12 months.
●●you are a new occupier of the
dwelling (you must appeal within Discounts
six months) Council tax is based on two adults
●●property values have been affected living in the property. If only one
by physical changes to the locality person (aged 18 or over) lives in a
property a 25% discount can be given.
Council tax must still be paid whilst
any appeal is being considered. Some people are not counted as adults
living in the property for council tax
Liability appeals purposes, for example:
You may appeal to Bristol City Council ●●full-time students, student nurses,
if, for example: apprentices, youth trainees and
foreign language assistants
●●you feel you are not liable because
●●18 and 19 year olds who are at, or
you are not the resident or owner
have just left, school or college
●●the council has made a mistake in ●●patients resident in hospital or who
calculating your bill are being looked after in care homes
●●a discount or exemption has not ●●people who are severely mentally
been given impaired
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●●resident care workers on low pay on your council tax. Your bill may
●●people caring for a disabled person be reduced by one band or, if your
who is not a partner or child under 18 property is in Band A, you will be
entitled to a reduction equivalent to
●●people in detention (except for non-
one-ninth of the Band D charge.
payment of council tax or a fine)
Full details of the exemptions and Help with paying your council tax
discounts, and how to apply, is You may be eligible for a reduction
available online at: bristol.gov.uk/ under section 13A of the Local
council-tax/discounts-and-exemptions Government Finance Act. Council
People with disabilities Tax Reduction provides help towards
meeting council tax bills for people on
If someone in your home needs an
low incomes. Find out whether you’re
extra room or space to meet their
entitled to help and make a claim at:
special needs arising from a disability,
bristol.gov.uk/counciltaxreduction
you may be entitled to a reduction
Council tax for 2020/21
This year the council is increasing and Somerset Police and Crime
council tax by 3.99%. This is made up Commissioner has decided to increase
of a 1.99% increase to support the their requirement by an additional
council’s budget along with a 2% levy £10 per Band D property or 4.6%.
to be used to support the pressures This adds a total of £302.75 a year to
the city faces in addressing adult social a Band D property, taking the total to
care demands. £2,061.03, an overall increase of 3.98%.
For 2020/21 council tax will be set The amount of council tax you are
at £1,758.28 for Band D properties. required to pay depends on which
Avon Fire has decided to increase valuation band your property has
the amount it requires from council been placed in by the Valuation Office,
taxpayers by 2%. Likewise the Avon subject to any discounts.
Police and Crime Fire
Band Ratio City Council Commissioner Authority Total
A 6/9 £1,172.18 £151.87 £49.96 £1,374.01
B 7/9 £1,367.56 £177.19 £58.29 £1,603.04
C 8/9 £1,562.91 £202.50 £66.61 £1,832.02
D 9/9 £1,758.28 £227.81 £74.94 £2,061.03
E 11/9 £2,149.02 £278.43 £91.59 £2,519.04
F 13/9 £2,539.74 £329.06 £108.25 £2,977.05
G 15/9 £2,930.46 £379.68 £124.90 £3,435.04
H 18/9 £3,516.54 £455.62 £149.88 £4,122.04
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Revenue spending plans for 2020/21
Bristol City Council is required to Spending on benefits and by schools
set an annual balanced budget, is largely funded by the government.
presenting how its financial resources This specific funding, together with the
are to be allocated and utilised, income we receive from people who
showing the council’s financial plan use our services, amount to £630.3m in
2020/21 (2019/20 £669.9m), leaving
for the coming year with regard to
a net spending total of £395.7m
statutory services as well as local key
(2019/20 £376.3m). The chart below
priorities and objectives. shows the net revenue cost of running
In 2020/21 Bristol City Council’s gross, the main council services for 2020/21,
or total spending on revenue services and includes employee costs, premises
will be £1,026m (2019/20 £1,046.2m) costs, supplies and services and support
including schools and welfare benefits. service costs.
How the money raised by council tax is spent
(average per household 2020/21 budget)
Housing (inc. accessible homes)
£40.33m (3%) Other services* £58.69m (5%)
Education and skills
£40.71m (4%) Highways £10.61m (1%)
Sport, leisure and culture Commercialisation
(inc. libraries)
and citizen services
£30.75 (3%) £21.22m (2%)
Children’s care
support Borrowing costs
£196.85m (17%) £61.63m (5%)
Waste
Adult social care £97.01m (8%)
£568.03m (49%)
Transport
(inc. concessionary fares)
£36.01m (3%)
*Other services includes managing council buildings, costs associated with policy,
strategy and communication, the costs of running the revenue and benefits service and
corporate budgets and contingencies, for example inflation and pay awards.
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Capital investment
In addition to our revenue budget, The programme includes investment
we need to ensure effective services in independent living schemes for
not just for today, but for the future. older and vulnerable adults, generating
Therefore we have ambitious plans greater supply of housing, sufficiency
for our capital investment – a capital of school places (including schools
programme of £291.9m for 2020/21. for children with special needs), and
This investment will help deliver schemes to promote economic growth,
our strategic aims and priorities and including improvements to the roads
provide benefit to our communities. and footpaths that we all use daily.
Adult social care
The Secretary of State made an offer referendum, to assist the authority
to adult social care authorities. in meeting its expenditure on adult
Adult social care authorities are local social care from the financial year
authorities which have functions 2016–17. It was originally made in
under Part 1 of the Care Act 2014, respect of the financial years up to and
namely county councils in England, including 2019–20. If the Secretary of
district councils for an area in State chooses to renew this offer in
England for which there is no county respect of a particular financial year,
council, London borough councils, the this is subject to the approval of the
Common Council of the City of London House of Commons.
and the Council of the Isles of Scilly. Following public consultation, Bristol
The offer was the option of an adult City Council has agreed to take up the
social care authority being able to offer of increasing council tax by an
charge an additional “precept” on additional 2% to assist in meeting the
its council tax without holding a increasing costs of social care.
Levies on the council
The Environment Agency (EA) and the Conservation Authority (IFCA) charge
Lower Severn Internal Drainage Board a levy for the management of the
(IDB) charge the council a levy for flood local marine environment. Details are
defence and land drainage. The Devon shown in the following table.
and Severn Inshore Fisheries and
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Levies on the council
Gross expenditure Total levy requirement Levy on council
Region 2020/21 2019/20 2020/21 2019/20 2020/21 2019/20
EA Severn and
Wye RFCC £15.9m £15.9m £1.17m £1.15m £2,827 £2,806
EA Wessex
RFCC £34.8m £31.5m £3.78m £3.67m £453,890 £440,134
Lower Severn
IDB £1.6m £1.6m £1.3m £1.3m £705,814 £683,046
Devon and
Severn IFCA £0.77m £0.84m £0.74m £0.73m £40,810 £40,906
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