With a confirmed 4.99% rise in Council Tax for households across the Isle of Wight, the amount you will pay from April has been revealed.
As well as a rise to the main Isle of Wight Council element, the amount we pay towards the Police and the new Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Authority (HIWFRA) will also increase.
In the current 2020/21 financial year, a Band C property pays £1,666.23 a year in overall council tax (excluding parish precepts). From 1st April, Band C residents will pay £91.73 more for services, and a total of £1,757.96 which will be shared across fire, police and the council.
Many towns and parishes are still deciding their precepts for the next financial year, but as a way of an example, it seems likely that a Band D property in Ryde will now pay £2,056.84 per year (£171.40 per month over 12 months, or £205.68 over 10 months) – that is an 8.9% rise in the precept for Ryde Town Council, on top of the 7.1% Police precept rise, the additional money for the fire service and the 4.99% Isle of Wight Council increase.
Overall, the levels of council tax you will pay are:
- Band A: £1,318.47
- Band B: £1,538.22
- Band C: £1,757.96
- Band D: £1,977.71
- Band E: £2,417.20
- Band F: £2,856,69
- Band G: £3,296.18
- Band H: £3,955.42
At the moment, precepts for local councils are still being approved by the Isle of Wight Council, so it is hard to know exactly how much you will pay on top of the rates above.
In some local council areas, precept levels will stay the same as last year so you won’t pay more. In others, local councils are proposing projects which will require more funding and have increased the precept.
For example, in East Cowes, Band D residents will pay an increase of £11.96 a year — or an extra £1 a month and as mentioned, Ryde will likely see an increase of 8.9% – an extra £12.20 a year for a Band D property.
Isle of Wight Council
When you pay your council tax bill, from 1st April, this is how much will stay with the council:
- Band A: £1,120.55
- Band B: £1,307.30
- Band C: £1,494.06
- Band D: £1,680.82
- Band E: £2,054.34
- Band F: £2,427.85
- Band G: £2,801.37
- Band H: £3,361.64
Hampshire Police
Of your total council tax bill, this is what you will pay towards the policing precept:
- Band A: £150.97 (+£10)
- Band B: £176.14 (+£11.67)
- Band C: £201.30 (+£13.33)
- Band D: £226.46 (+£15)
- Band E: £276.78 (+£18.33)
- Band F: £327.11 (+£21.67)
- Band G: £377.43 (+£25)
- Band H: £452.92 (+£30)
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Authority
Until April, residents would have paid for the fire services through the lump sum of council tax that went to the council. Now, the change means the Island is in line with Hampshire but Island residents face an additional cost to bring it up to base level in the first place and then the 1.99% increase.
Altogether, for the HIWFRA, Island residents will pay:
- Band A: £46.95
- Band B: £54.78
- Band C: £62.60
- Band D: £70.43
- Band E: £86.08
- Band F: £101.73
- Band G: £117.38
- Band H: £140.86
I presume that band E must be the largest band of properties on the island as it seems to have been loaded?
Between A and B the difference is £219.75, between B and C £219.74, between C and D £219.75, between D and E the difference is a whopping £439.49, between E and F it goes back to a difference of £339.49, between F and G £339.49.
Is band E an error? It does not seem right. So how many years has it been out of sync?
Obviously would expect the higher Band H to be greater.
No error Bands have always been ratio loaded with Band D at 100% and adjustments made at percentage decreases below D & increases above.
Sorry – that doesn’t work – if you read my email
band b on the island is the same as band h in westminster something is wrong somewhere
My son used to live in Wandsworth & his band E payment was more than 50% less than my band D
Ryde council increase precept by 8.9%. Yet another inflation busting rise from them. What’s justification for hard pressed families. They should reduce burden, not pile it on.
20% income tax becomes a joke when you look at how much extra we are paying for the police and fire services. Wouldn’t it be better and fairer to low income families to increase income tax, rather than have all this indirect taxation that affects people on a low income.
I was better of in the days I paid 33% income tax, when you had mortgage relief, low council and water rates etc. etc.
It’s ok I’m sure we have all had pay rises haven’t we???? I’m sure nobody’s lost their jobs lately???
and we all know who did have a pay rise!
I wonder if they will give themselves another pay rise this year?
But of course they will, they have extra council tax to pay !!!!!!!! Lol.
We don’t need a breakdown. Plain and simple, it’s too much for what get back out of this lot.