The Government have announced their intention to cap Surrey Police's 9.7% council tax increase in 2008. Should Surrey Police be capped, the force may have to conduct a £600,000 re-billing exercise to change the coming financial year’s council tax bills. Alternatively, reductions could be made for 2009/10. The costs of any re-billing would be met by the Police, although it would be Tandridge which would have to carry it out. Surrey Police's increase compares to Tandridge's below inflation increase of 3.9% and Surrey County Council's increase of 4.8%.
To see Surrey Police's response to the Government's threat click here.
I think it is disgraceful that Surrey Police's central government funding is so paltry that they have had to resort to this.
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Showing posts with label Tax. Show all posts
Thursday, 27 March 2008
Friday, 15 February 2008
3.9%
Last night Tandridge District Council adopted a budget for the next tax year will deliver improvements to front line services for only a 3.9% increase to taxpayers. This lower than inflation increase is despite receiving an increase of only 0.6% in our central government grant.
Services will be Greener, with more money for recycling; Cleaner, with more money for streetsweeping and pest control and be provided more cheaply than if the Liveral Democrats had been incontol. Under their plans they would have had to increased the money spent on administrative overheads (or alternatively cut work on Front Line Services).
Services will be Greener, with more money for recycling; Cleaner, with more money for streetsweeping and pest control and be provided more cheaply than if the Liveral Democrats had been incontol. Under their plans they would have had to increased the money spent on administrative overheads (or alternatively cut work on Front Line Services).
Wednesday, 13 February 2008
Taxing Times
Tandridge District Council will meet on Thursday to set the level of Council tax for the next financial year. However we will only get to set the rate on the Tandridge element - the majority of the tax burden faced by local residents comes from the County Council and Surrey Police's precept accounting for roughly the same proportion of the tax as the District Council.
The bad news for local residents is that Surrey Police have opted for a whopping 9.72% increase in its part of the council tax.
This rise is because Surrey receives one of the lowest Government grants per head of population for policing due to an unfair funding formula. If this grant was at the average rate of other forces around London (£106 per person) Surrey would receive an additional £18.2 million. The formula takes no account of the challenges Surrey faces from criminals coming into the county from elsewhere. Fifty nine per cent of identified organised crime gangs affecting Surrey are engaged in drugs supply and originate from London while 47 per cent of burglary and vehicle crime offenders come from outside Surrey, more than half of these from London. The funding formula also takes no account of the need to invest more in counter-terrorism policing.
So it looks like residents in Surrey are being asked to cough up again the decisions taken by Gordon Brown's Government to redistribute tax from the South of England to marginal Labour constituencies in the north.
The bad news for local residents is that Surrey Police have opted for a whopping 9.72% increase in its part of the council tax.
This rise is because Surrey receives one of the lowest Government grants per head of population for policing due to an unfair funding formula. If this grant was at the average rate of other forces around London (£106 per person) Surrey would receive an additional £18.2 million. The formula takes no account of the challenges Surrey faces from criminals coming into the county from elsewhere. Fifty nine per cent of identified organised crime gangs affecting Surrey are engaged in drugs supply and originate from London while 47 per cent of burglary and vehicle crime offenders come from outside Surrey, more than half of these from London. The funding formula also takes no account of the need to invest more in counter-terrorism policing.
So it looks like residents in Surrey are being asked to cough up again the decisions taken by Gordon Brown's Government to redistribute tax from the South of England to marginal Labour constituencies in the north.
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