The Isle of Wight Council will demand an extra 4.99% from households through their Council Tax bills from April, as councillors have tonight (Wednesday) approved the 2023/24 Budget which will also see parking charges increase and significant cuts made to public services.
The increase in Council Tax doesn’t end at 5% though as rises in the fire service and Police precepts, as well as some town and parish council precepts, will drive up the amount owed considerably.
For example, a Band D property in Sandown will have to pay an extra £86.46 to the Isle of Wight Council, plus an extra £72.70 to Sandown Town Council, £15 to Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary and £5 to Hampshire & Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service. That means a Band D property will have to find an additional £179.16 in 2023/24 when compared to 2022/23.
As well as asking for more money through Council Tax, the Isle of Wight is demanding more and more of Islanders by ramping up parking charges, increasing the floating bridge fares and even charging more for cremations and burials.
From April, Isle of Wight households will have to pay the following minimum Council Tax amounts. This does not include local town/parish precepts, which depend on where you live:
- Band A – £1,433 – up by £70.91
- Band B – £1,671.84 – up by £82.81
- Band C – £1,910.66 – up by £94.62
- Band D – £2,149.50 – up by £106.46
- Band E – £2,627.16 – up by £130.11
- Band F – £3,104.84 – up by £153.79
- Band G – £3,583.50 – up by £178.43
- Band H – £4,299 – up by £212.92
The Alliance’s budget was passed with no amendments, despite efforts to keep funding for stroke social care support, a patient falls coordinator with the NHS Trust and cross-Solent patient transport funding.
The budget was passed with 21 in favour, 4 against and 11 abstentions — the majority of the opposition Conservative party.
Cabinet member for strategic finance and transformational change, Councillor Chris Jarman, said it was a survival budget for the authority, with significant cuts in many areas, having faced the turmoil in the world and the Island’s economics.
He said it is a budget that none of the councillors would have wished for and one that has elements which could feel unsatisfactory to all.
Councillor Paul Fuller said it was a ‘crap budget’ which he had no pleasure to support, but councillors had to fall in line.
So there making significant cuts to public services but charging us more money.?
Have you heard of inflation?
Have you heard of poverty? This is what this council and government are putting the UK in unless you are claiming benefits or a rubber boat refuge
Have you heard of blaming immigrants and benefit claimants for the mess this government has put us in?
That’s how Hitler rose to power.
The people i see still buying luxury items such as alcohol, cigarettes, getting their Turkey teeth done, suggests there is still plenty of fat in the system. People sadly see these items as essential and complain they cant afford them.
How come we have so many more homes built here, ALL paying council tax, but the c.tax bill goes up each year? It ought to get lower as more money floods into their coffers.
As if they make a profit on each house, then clearly the more houses built the more income they get, so where does it all go, when all we see is ever more cutbacks?
Clearly very badly run at best.
To much is spent on those who will ensure they will never contribute to society, but always take, and instead of the unemployed, single parents, disabled, mentally sick living a slightly more basic life than workers, they all get given more, and the first two groups often choose their unemployment and ‘alleged’ single parenthood as easy lifestyle choices.
Yes exactly It can’t all be blamed on inflation as the commenter above has stated. The council is badly managed and just too many people in our society who are always on the take as pointed out by I.V Searle below.
I think you’ll find that a large part of the problem is central government slashing the Council budget to fund tax breaks for billionaires.
Maybe don’t vote Tory next time?
As has been pointed out by another comment, “Votes to cut the stroke service were all the Alliance Group independents, the 2 Green councillors, the 2 LibDems, Richard Quigley (Lab.) and John Nicholson (Con.)
Maybe don’t vote for anyone next time ‘cos it sure ain’t going to be any better under the alternatives to the Tories
Crocodile tears from the Tory voters
It’s their Government who have caused this shizzle show..but let’s blame the poor/unemployed/refugees
I mean… inflation is 10% or more so yeah, in fact entire 4.99% can exactly be blamed on inflation, and then you still need cuts to make the same return of value as you had last year from the council tax.
So disabled and mentally sick people actually choose to be like that?
Use your brain
Is your real name Nadine Dorres?
Oh goody. I’m looking forward to getting less for more. Can’t wait!
We couldn’t get much less
Only 4 voted against. Cllrs Claire Mosdell, John Nicholson, Matt Price and Geoff Brodie.
Votes to cut the stroke service were all the Alliance Group independents, the 2 Green councillors, the 2 LibDems, Richard Quigley (Lab.) and John Nicholson (Con.)
What about our survival , we can’t just shout out for extra cash to cover rising costs , I wish it were that’s simple.
the average worker on the island hasn’t had a 5% pay rise some haven’t had any .
its not just 5% on council tax it 10% on this 7%on that the sums just don’t add up for householders it’s impossible now to make ends meet.
i hope they realise the implications this will have on all round expenditure to the islands economy when shops etc etc are dropping like flies we will be ghost island before long
You are absolutely correct. This household got a 3% increase. Yesterday we received a renewal for house and contents insurance and it had increased by more than 100% (no claims or changes). Disgusting.
Why 11 Abstentions?
surely if you do not agree or are against the proposal you should vote against it, NOT abstain – that just shows a lack of conviction!
To bloody weak and don’t want to upset the Apple cart ,,, might effect their job and PENSIONS
Way to much money is wasted by allowing so called single parents to have cheap or free rent and council tax.
These parasites get thousands in child tax credits, child allowance or universal credits.
They also get free school meals, uniforms and school travel paid for.
But as their income if working just 16hr per week is ‘made up’ by tax credits or u.c then why should they get cheap or free c.tax and rent as well?
Many of them lie and live with someone to up the income and many as we know drug deal to gain even more.
They choose to have a child to gain an easy lifestyle, but at OUR expense.
Time to hit them hard as just adding more clones to ensure the next generation is even worse off.
Got to look after the needy poorer people on the island you know .
they know the system and how to get the most from it for no input whatsoever
Well said.
I’m a single parent, and apart from child benefit, which everyone who is a parent gets, I get nothing. My ex Wife even refuses to pay maintenance, so I struggle. I work full time and do everything on my own. I get nothing from your imaginary list.so please shut up.
It’s not an imaginary list, it is sadly very true. However, you are an exception and I don’t think these remarks were aimed at you and people such as yourself who work hard to raise their families.
cant believe how low people stoop with their comments. I had a house with a mortgage with a partner. Unfortunately he drank more and more along with being abusive. I had to walk after he began threatening our three year old child. I was then a single parent for twelve years. Most of that time I worked but yes at times relied on top ups. Can you please explain how I was a parasite by being a single parent?
my current partner brought his two children up on his own after his partner walked after meeting someone else. He worked two jobs while bringing his kids up. He now has a life limiting condition as a result of work he did. Can you please explain the term ‘parasite’ in relation to him as a single parent!
The real parasites are the money men who stood to make a fortune from Brexit and higher energy prices. Oh, and share holders of utility companies, travel companies, etc.
shareholders of utility companies – shows you just how little you know, superman.
you do realise that the larger shareholders of a lot of companies are pension funds, which hold the cash that employees have been saving throughout their working lives for their retirements. Those investments should increase in time, to enable the employees who paid in, to get a pension that stops them from having to claim benefits in retirement.
are they parasites superman or just hard working people, saving for their retirements, through deductions from their wages as they work to fund their retirements, without sponging off the state.
the real parasites are those that never work and claim benefits from cradle to grave.
Like the Royal Family..
Never done a proper days graft. Living off the state with their multiple homes, having multiple children, hanging out with sex offenders and paying off victims with public funds.
Parasites
Are we talking about the council?
What would happen, say everyone stood together for once and said NO. We’re not paying.
Can’t jail us all.
Just a thought
I agree For once we should all stand together
Unfortunately they’ve taken away our right to protest by withdrawing payment. Non payment of council tax bypasses the high court, and is directed instantly to the balliffs without any knowledge to the household concerned. The first anyone will know about it is a letter from the bailiffs.
but you still expect your bin to be emptied, the road to be swept, the lights on the street to come on, staff at the offices to deal with your benefit claim – how does all this happen, if you refuse to pay.
Sorry council worker thank you for all your hard work
I don’t get no benefits. Not a penny. So don’t know where you dreamt that up from.
Oh, and I walk my bin up to the road, as they don’t come down lane. There is no streetlighting where I live either .
Where did I say I refused to pay??, just stating the true facts, and I don’t claim benefits.
I’ve said this before, but it’s getting people to stand together in these divided times .
Well I’ve got bad news for those delusional public servant’s (which they need a reminder we pay their wages).
Well there is no more money in the pot!!
Should I go out robbing?Become a drug dealer?No pay my mortgage?drive my car without tax,mot,insurance?
This tax will NEVER go down, paying more and more for less or poor service,this is Legalised Corruption, We pay the Government enough They tax our wages,they tax what we spend our remaining wages on,what we’ve managed to put by for our pensions is taxed if we decide to use it!!
I’ve had enough I’ve cancelled my council tax Direct debit, send me to prison if you want I’ve had enough
Good on you
Survival budget! Not for me or many others.
All those gold plated pensions to pay for….
Council Tax should be abolished, it’s about time a fairer tax was introduced.
Stop our council wasting money on the council offices !!!!!
New air con , windows, toilets, computer system , laptops, mobile phones, electric car’s …etc etc!!!!
No one has actually said how many staff work in the building!
How many still work from home etc ….
And not to mention the floating heap of junk!!!!
The signage telling us if it’s running or not ….
So many drains on our money….
None of them do the job correctly which they are paid for either.They are all lazy skiving and useless
I’m not being funny but I’m a single parent work my but of as a single parent /self employed cleaner trying to make things work
I know of people that are claiming as single yet they have partners that is where the problem lies because so many people do it and you all get tarred with the same brush, some of us are simply single working parents and through no fault and shame work aswell x
It’s funding the care bill that takes up all the money. Housing for the elderly. They are legally obliged to provide it and the costs keep growing.
Here we go again,a council run by total amateurs only interested in putting their expenses up,no concern for the rest of us.Let’s get rid of them all and have a council at least reduced by 75% with a mandate to spend our money wisely at the same time reducing the council tax by at least 25%
Councillors expenses should be reduced by 50 percent they are paid far too much for what they do, The last time this alliance lot were in charge they bottled it and failed to produce a budget they are quite frankly hopeless.When they were in charge the last time I asked my IOW councillor of St Helens I will let you all work out who that is, I asked him to propose a reduction in councillors expenses he refused. Councillors expenses.cost approx half a million pounds per year it is outrageous and the money saved would do quite a lot of good for more important things. Most of them are in it for the money.
Try turning off those signs that states that the floaty mcfloat face is currently working. And only use it when it breaksdown. I suppose they’ll have to increase their PCN targets for their parking tax collectors too.
Remind us again. Just how much are the useless council spending on electric vehicles this year?
Less virtue signalling nonsense and some responsible spending might help.
Untill people make a complete stand and say no more …..this will continue . Wake up to these tyrannical times.
How much does it take for the British public or the UK as a whole to stand.
Protests going off all around the world even here in UK not even making the mainstream news.
Not true , Council tax will increase by more than 10% inflation as figures manipulated by Council by passing out to Fire, Police, Parish Councils etc . There are alot of waste in Council and how many times has ground floor at County Hall been revamped, electric car’s, heating, double glazing,Air conditioning,paid sick leave,31days paid holidays etc,whilst we all have to pay for this, even when working we don’t get full pay when sick, no paid holidays and we can’t afford an electric car or even put heating on or feed the kids etc.
More money to pay to live on this shitty little backwards island
I was going to say “well you know where the door is…”
but TBH the rest of the UK is no better 🙁
& you can’t now go live in spain or somewhere where the weather is better & living is cheaper, ‘cos the Brexit brigade made it so
(presumably they’re the ones who are getting all of our money now, which is why they stoped people from leaving)
One can go and live in Spain if you want to, one can go and live in France if one wants to I have done that.You sound like a boring remoaner.
What is the point of 11 abstentions? Councillors, either you agree or you don’t, yes or no. It’s quite simple.
This island will soon become a doss hole for dossers on benefits. Who will want to stay and live here. The island is slowly shutting down. Derelict hotels, high street shops all going, crime rate up. Such a shame.
Hope u lot in county hall enjoy your new air con
Just more and more money going into the pension pot for overpaid Council officals and we can’t do a think about it
I will see you all in prison then, can’t afford it, I guess all the island residents will have a special prison wing all to themselves for not being able to pay council Tax. Meanwhile the council will seize homes, all your belongings and sell them to the “entitled” Welcome to the new autocracy. Not being negative either, just saying how it is. Have you all noticed the new “fad” that if you disagree with those in charge you’re being negative. Just another way to put you down. Welcome to the Isle of Wight “Kremlin”
“I guess all the island residents will have a special prison wing all to themselves”
wing?,.. no,.. they’ll just put guards on the ferries & use the whole IOW as a prison.
(mind you, it very nearly is a prison already, with the cost of the ferries these days)
Mmmm… here’s a question. “Do Councillors get discounted ferry travel ??” if so,.. who pays for it? (retorical question btw, ..we know the answer )
Isle of Wight Council twinned with the Kremlin or the Gestapo or the KGB or FSB as it is now. Take your pick.
They did manage to give an extra £365000. To increase the subsidy for those who only pay 35 percent of the council tax!
With so few services, what is the need for so many council staff.
So our beloved council is increasing our CT by 5%, the maximum allowed. But they are also reducing their services. Therefore they are increasing our tax by more than 5% which means they are effectively increasing it by in excess of the said 5%, contrary to the law. Would a legal eagle care to earn his salary by looking into the wording of the applicable law? Meanwhile why don’t we boycott all council car parks, the Cowes non floating disaster and anything else that goes to fill the council’s coffers. And pay your demands on the latest possible dates, no annual payments up front. You will not get your money back when they admit they are bankrupt.
Have to make the cuts to services and increase what we pay going to be a hot summer they got air conditioning too sort out
I wonder if some of it will pay for the legal aid to try and keep one of their own out of prison ???
People only have so much money to give, take too much so that they have poor living standards will only increase expenditure in other areas and early deaths. So much for a caring human race, some animals get treated better than we do.
At least those animals are better behaved than us.
And we are constantly bombarded with appeals to help other countries too and charities on tv. It’s like we’re being sucked dry and made to feel guilty all at once!
This whole world is broken not just the Isle of Wight!
It’s the good old public sector where you pay a lot more every year and get a lot less in return, but don’t complain because most of that extra cash is being used to fight that conveniently nebulous and actually impossible to measure accurately (given the billions of variables that can and do affect it) bogey man of ‘climate change’, which has been the ultimate gift for not actually delivering stuff any more for hundreds of thousands of hectoring bureaucratic non-jobbers and political grifters all over the country
We feel really let down by the IWC scrapping the stroke survivor services. Firstly although I called the ambulance which arrived in ten minutes and blue lighted my wife to St Marys, the A&E managed to mis-diagnose the stroke and sent her home a few hours later, by Monday it was obvious she was not getting better and then was admitted to the stroke unit. My wife needs 24 hour care which I give her, we have no family on the island and apart from a small attendance allowance get no other benefits, we manage on our pensions. The stroke survivors service was a lifeline of support to us. We do have a volunteers run stroke café which meets monthly in various pubs but it has no professional input.
Bastards!!!! What is there to show for it!! It’s robbery that’s what it is!
Why are we complaining about the rise, are we being selfish in allowing over 15% of our
council tax being used for council employees pension pot? If we had no council workers at all
would there be a huge difference in what we are already getting which is nil.