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  4. Your Council Tax Guide

Your Council Tax Guide

In this section

  1. Foreword from the Leader
  2. Your Council Tax in Action
  3. What You Need to Know
  4. Council Tax Demand Notice Explanatory Notes
  5. Exempt Dwellings – For Which No Council Tax Is Payable for the Period of Exemption
  6. Section 13A – Local Government Finance Act 1992
  7. Adult Social Care Precept 2025/26
  8. Council Tax Band Values
  9. How We Worked Out Your Council Tax
  10. You are here: How the Council's Net Revenue Budget Is Funded
  11. How This Year's Budget Compares to Last Year's Budget
  12. Why The Council's Budget Has Changed Between 2024/25 And 2025/26
  13. How the Council Spends Its Net Revenue Budget in 2025/26
  14. Levies And Precepts
  15. Parish Council Precepts
  16. Parish Council Expenditure

How the Council's Net Revenue Budget Is Funded

  2025/26 £'m
Council Tax Requirement 137.682
Retained Business Rates 57.613
Business Rates Top Up and Other Grants 38.109
Central Government Grant – Revenue Support Grant (RSG) 19.347
Public Health Grant (estimated) 19.420
Other Government Grants 83.807
Collection Fund Surplus 3.000
TOTAL 358.978
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