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Guide to Council Tax 2021/22 For details of how to pay please see the reverse of your council tax notice. Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council Hinckley Hub • Rugby Road • Hinckley Leics LE10 0FR Tel: 01455 238141 Fax: 01455 251172 Online contact form: Website: If you want this information in larger print or audio versions please telephone 01455 238141
Guide to Council Tax
What is Council Tax? Paying council tax over 12
Each year the Government expects local months
authorities to raise money to help pay for Council tax instalments can now be spread
the cost of providing local services. Some over 12 months instead of 10. Following
of this money comes from residents of the your request the number of payments will
borough and is collected by the council in be dependant on the number of months
the form of council tax. remaining in the financial year. Your request
for 12 monthly instalments will automatically
Where does the money go? apply to the next financial year. If you would
The money we collect from you is not all like to pay your council tax over 12
for Hinckley and Bosworth Borough instalments please email your request
Council. In fact we keep only 7.3p in detailing your name, address and reference
every pound. The rest of the money is number to revenues@hinckley-
collected by us on behalf of a number of bosworth.gov.uk
or contact the Customer Services Team on
other authorities who also provide
01455 238141.
services in your area. These are:
•Leicestershire County Council Council tax, benefits and
•Combined Fire Authority
•Police & Crime Commissioner for
business rates online
Leicestershire Once registered, customers will be able to
•Local parish councils view their own council tax account, benefit
claim or business rates account online. You
In addition to the money collected from can register online at the following website
council tax payers we also receive:
•government grants
•rates paid by businesses
•fees, charges and other income Council tax appeals
If you do not agree with the band for your
HOW EVERY POUND COLLECTED IS home and you wish to make an appeal
DISTRIBUTED
please contact the Valuation Office.
Leicestershire County Council - 73 . 2 p
Tel: 03000 501501
For further information regarding banding
appeals see the Valuation Office website
Combined
Police & Crime Fire Authority -
Commissioner for 3.6p
Leicestershire - 12.9p Parishes - 3.0p
Hinckley & Bosworth BC - 7 . 3 p
2
Other appeals
If you wish to appeal against any other NB - Properties that are unoccupied
matter regarding your council tax please and furnished do not receive a
do so in writing to the Council Tax Team. discount. A full charge will apply.
If you are appealing against any matter
From 1 April 2020 properties that
regarding your council tax, you should
are empty and unfurnished for
continue to pay your original council tax
more than two years will now be
bill whilst your appeal is outstanding. Any
subject to an additional charge for
overpayment will be refunded to you or
empty homes premium. Further
offset against any outstanding balance.
information regarding this can be
found at: https://www.hinckley-
Discounts and bosworth.gov.uk/counciltax
exemptions
Council tax assumes there are at least 2
adults living in the home. If you live on
your own you are entitled to a 25%
discount.
Discounts on empty and furnished
properties:
1) Properties that are in need of, or
undergoing major repair work or
structural alteration -
These properties will be entitled to a
50% discount from council tax for up
to twelve months.
2) Properties that are unoccupied and
unfurnished -
These properties will be entitled to a
one month discount of 100%.
3) Annexe discount -
Annexes meeting certain criteria will be
entitled to a 50% discount. To qualify
for a discount the annexe must be
occupied by a relative of the person
liable to pay council tax on the main
home or if it is unoccupied the annexe
must be being used as part of the main
home. If you wish to apply we will send
you an application form.
3Some properties may be exempt from council tax and the following is a broad
description.
Class Unoccupied properties Entitlement
B Owned by a charity Up to 6 months
D Left empty by someone who has gone to
prison
E Previously occupied by a person in permanent
residential care
F Waiting for probate or letters of Up to 6 months after probate is granted
administration to be granted
G Empty because occupation is forbidden by law
H Waiting to be occupied by a minister of
religion
I Left empty by someone who has moved to
receive personal care by reason of old age,
disablement or illness
J Left empty by someone who has moved to
provide personal care to
another person
K Owned by a student and last occupied by a
student
L Subject to a Repossession Order
Q The responsibility of a bankrupt's trustee
R A site for a caravan, mobile home or mooring
T Granny annexes or similar type of property
Class Occupied properties
M /N All the residents are students
O Used for UK armed forces accommodation
P At least one liable person is a member of a visiting force
S All residents are less than 18 years old
U All residents are severely mentally impaired
V At least one liable person is a foreign diplomat
W It is annexed to a family home and occupied by that family's elderly or disabled relatives
4If you think you may be entitled to a Are you struggling to pay
discount or may be exempt please contact
the council tax section on 01455 238141. your rent and council tax?
If you receive a discount/exemption then If you would like to check if you would be
you must tell the council tax section entitled to any assistance please call the
within 21 days of any change of Benefits Section on 01455 238141 or check
circumstances which affects your out our website for more information at
entitlement.
If the property remains unoccupied and On our website we have a benefits calculator
unfurnished after any exemption expires so you can work out your entitlement
then it will attract a 100% council tax without having to reveal any of your income
charge.
to a third party. It will not ask for your name
If the property remains empty for more or your address, you just put in details of
than two years you will now be subject your income and within a few minutes you
to an additional charge for empty homes will know whether you are entitled to any
premium. help with your rent and council tax bills.
Claim what is rightfully yours!
How to pay
Please see the details on the reverse of Have your circumstances
your bill.
changed?
Council tax support If you receive benefits, you must inform the
benefits section at Hinckley and Bosworth
scheme Borough Council immediately of any change
If you are under state pension age you in your or your household’s circumstances
will have to pay some of your council tax. which may affect your benefit entitlement.
If you are working age the maximum Advising another Government department,
amount you will have to pay is 12%. It is such as the Department for Work and
important that you contact us as soon Pensions or the Inland Revenue, does not
as you receive your Demand Notice, if mean that we will be notified of your
you need help and advice on how to changes.
pay your charge.
IMPORTANT NOTE: All changes in
circumstance should be reported
within a month of the change
occurring. Failure to do this will be
dealt with as an act of Fraud.
5BENEFIT FRAUD Citizens Advice Bureau
We are committed to fighting fraud in your Contact the CAB for impartial and
area but want your help, so if you suspect independent advice which is free and
that someone may be claiming benefits confidential.
that they’re not entitled to, please call the
National Benefit Fraud Hotline on Advice line: 0300 3302111. These advice
lines are open from Monday to Friday
0800 854 440 from 9am to 4pm
or use the DWP website Citizens Advice Leicestershire website
( )
or write to
NBFH, PO Box 224, Preston, PR1 1GP
FAQ’s I want to let you know about a change of
address/change in occupancy.
I want to set up a Direct Debit to pay
Please contact customer services or you can
my council tax / business rates.
log onto
You can set up a Direct Debit using the
instruction within this leaflet. Alternatively and complete an on-line form.
telephone customer services on 01455 What is an applicable amount?
238141 who will arrange this without the This is a weekly figure set by the
need to complete any paperwork. You can Government and represents the basic living
also set up a Direct Debit online at needs of the customer and family. All
authorities will use this amount when
My bill states I pay by Direct Debit do I calculating entitlement to benefit.
need to do anything? I have received my Council Tax Support
No - the payments will automatically be award letter and the amount of savings
taken from your account on the dates (capital) quoted is different to the
shown on your bill. amount I now have in my account(s).
I have received a council tax bill and I The figures used in the calculation will be
don’t understand why the amounts based upon the amount of savings you had
have changed? when you last applied. If you are of working
There may be various reasons why the age savings below £6,000 will not be taken
amounts have changed. Your entitlement into account when assessing entitlement.
to a discount or Council Tax Support may This figure is £10,000 in respect of
be different. If it is not clear from your bill pensioners.
or the accompanying letter please contact
customer services. The state retirement pension/welfare
benefit amount shown on my benefit
My bill says I’m in a special expense
award letter is not quite what I receive.
area. What does that mean?
Most DWP benefits are increased by a
An urban area such as Hinckley does not
certain percentage each year which we work
have a Parish Council therefore the
out for the new financial year. If your figure
Borough Council takes on this role.
is not accurate please bring in your
Residents in other areas of the Borough
pay their Parish Council for certain pension/benefit award letter so that we may
services and residents of Hinckley pay adjust our records.
‘special expenses’ to the Borough Council.
6How we will use your information
Your information will be used so that we can administer your account and collect Council
Tax from you in accordance with the Local Government Finance Act 1992. Under Article
6(1) (e) of the General Data Protection Regulations, we are permitted to use data for our
tasks. It will be used by Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council and our partners to deliver
and fulfil our statutory duties. We will not disclose any personal information to any other
third parties unless required or allowed to do so by law. Read more about how we use
personal data on our privacy notice page: https://www.hinckley-bosworth.gov.uk/privacy
7Paying by Direct Debit
Easy to Arrange - To start paying Direct Debit is simple, just complete and return the instruction below. We will inform your bank
or building society to set up the arrangement . Alternatively, you can telephone our customer services team on 01455 238141 during
normal working hours and provide your bank or building society details i.e. account name, number and sort-code and (subject to
certain safeguards) be immediately set up for this payment option without completing any paperwork.
The Direct Debit Guarantee
• This Guarantee is offered by all Banks and Building Societies that accept instructions to pay Direct Debits.
• If there are any changes to the amount, date or frequency of your Direct Debit, Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council will notify
you 10 working days in advance of your account being debited or as otherwise agreed. If you request Hinckley & Bosworth Borough
Council to collect a payment, confirmation of the amount and date will be given to you at the time of the request.
• If an error is made in the payment of your Direct Debit, by Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council or your Bank or Building Society,
you are entitled to a full and immediate refund of the amount paid from your Bank or Building Society.
• If you receive a refund you are not entitled to, you must pay it back when Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council asks you to.
• You can cancel a Direct Debit at any time simply contacting your Bank or Building Society. Written confirmation may be required.
Please also notify us.
Instruction to your Bank or Building Society to pay by Direct Debit
Please fill in the form and send it to: Originator’s Identification Number
Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council, The Leicestershire Partnership,
PO Box 10004, Hinckley, Leicestershire LE10 9EJ
9 9 5 9 9 8
Name & full postal address of your Bank or Building Society Local Authority Reference Number
To : The Manager Bank /Building Society
Instruction to your Bank or Building Society
Address
Please pay Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council
Direct Debits from the account detailed in this
Postcode
instruction subject to the safeguards assured by
the Direct Debit Guarantee. I understand that this
Name(s) of Account Holder(s) instruction may remain with Hinckley & Bosworth
Borough Council and, if so, will be passed
electronically to my bank or building society.
Branch Sort Code Signature(s)
Bank/Building Society account number
Date
FOR HINCKLEY & BOSWORTH BOROUGH COUNCIL OFFICIAL USE ONLY.
This is not part of the instruction to your bank or building society. However, the information is required by
Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council. Please complete accordingly.
Name & Address
•
Postcode
Payment Frequency, tick the appropriate box, with monthly there is a choice of 1st, 15th or 28th of the month.
Monthly - 1st 15th 28th Half yearly Annually
Do you want to pay over 10 months or 12 months? (please tick box) 10 months
12 months
8What is the money spent on?
2020/21 2021/2022 Per Band
Net Net D Equivalent
Expenditure Income Spending Expenditure Income Spending after funding
£’000 £’000 £’000 £’000 £’000 £’000 £
864 699 165 Highways 871 694 177 2.12
7,054 5,224 1,830 Planning & 6,912 5,170 1,742 20.97
Economic Development
2,181 1,239 942 Recreation & Tourism 2,142 1,153 989 11.92
1,189 154 1,035 Environmental Health 1,240 154 1,068 13.08
6,065 1,854 4,211 Refuse Collection & Street 6,185 2,119 4,066 48.90
Cleansing
17,121 15,233 1,888 Housing 17,157 15,549 1,608 19.34
11,155 11,155 Housing
0 Revenue Account 11,191 11,191 0 0.00
17,300 15,951 1,349 Other Services 17,119 15,688 1,431 17.22
62,929 51,509 11,420 Gross Expenditure 62,817 51,718 11,099 133.55
(568)Transfer to (Use of ) Reserves 528 6.32
10,852 Borough Net Expenditure 11,627 139.87
Borough Funding * (6,211)
Band D Council Tax 5,416
Per Band D Costs of Refuse Collection & Recycling
Equivalent
* BOROUGH FUNDING £’000 £ Funded from Council Tax 2021/22
Business Rates 4,752 122.73 This table shows the annual net costs for the
refuse and recycling services for 2021/22 that are
New Homes Bonus 892 23.05
being funded from council tax, expressed as cost
Collection Fund Surplus/(Deficit) 567 14.64 per household and at each property band. Council
6,211 160.42 tax only funds 42.9% of our total net spending.
per Band D Band Band
Household Equivalent A B
How the charge is made up £p £p £p £p
Per Band D Recycling 14.74 19.59 13.06 15.24
Equivalent Refuse 10.05 13.37 8.91 10.40
2021/2022 £’000 £ Total
Borough Council Tax 5,416 139.87 Refuse & 24.79 32.96 21.97 25.64
Recycling
Parish Councils 2,209 57.04
Budget Requirement 7,625 196.91 Band Band Band Band Band Band
C D E F G H
Leicestershire County Council 54,625 1,410.78 £p £p £p £p £p £p
Combined Fire Authority 2,683 69.29 Recycling 17.41 19.59 23.95 28.30 32.66 39.19
Police & Crime Commissioner 9,611 248.23 Refuse 11.88 13.37 16.33 19.31 22.27 26.73
for Leicestershire
74,544 1,925.21 Total
Refuse & 29.29 32.96 40.28 47.61 54.93 65.92
Recycling
9Why has the Borough Council’s spending altered?
2020/21 2021/22 Movement Flood Defence Levy
£m £m £m
11.420 Gross Expenditure 11.099 (0.321) The Midlands and Anglian
( 0.568) Transfer to (Use of) Reserves 0.528 1.096
Regions of the Environment
10.852 Borough Net Expenditure 11.627 0.775
2.180 Parish Precepts 2.209 0.029
Agency charge levies to the
13.032 Budget Requirement 13.836 0.804 County Council for their flood
(3.966) Business Rates (4.752) (0.786) defence functions which are
(1.642) New Homes Bonus (0.892) 0.750 included in the County’s
0.015 Collection Fund (Surplus)/ Deficit (0.567) (0.582) precept.Total gross expenditure
7.439 Demand on Collection Fund 7.625 0.186 for the Midlands Region for
Funded By:
2021/22 is £86.046m (2020/21
4.504 Borough Taxpayers 4.666 0.162
0.755 Special Expenses Taxpayers 0.750 (0.005)is £82.525m) and for the
2.180 Parish Taxpayers 2.209 0.029 Anglian region £88.045m
7.439 7.625 0.186 (2020/21 is £71.875m)
Summary of Council Tax 2021/2022
VALUATION BAND
A (6/9)
Amount required B (7/9) C (8/9) D (9/9) E (11/9) F (13/9) G (15/9) H (18/9)
Area/Parish £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £
Hinckley 749,999.00 1,278.25 1,491.30 1,704.34 1,917.38 2,343.47 2,769.56 3,195.63 3,834.76
Bagworth 117,000.00 1,311.21 1,529.76 1,748.29 1,966.83 2,403.91 2,840.98 3,278.04 3,933.65
Barlestone 85,000.00 1,304.02 1,521.37 1,738.71 1,956.04 2,390.72 2,825.41 3,260.07 3,912.08
Barwell 258,430.00 1,295.52 1,511.45 1,727.37 1,943.29 2,375.13 2,806.98 3,238.81 3,886.57
Burbage 427,043.99 1,279.94 1,493.27 1,706.59 1,919.91 2,346.56 2,773.21 3,199.85 3,839.82
Cadeby 4,550.00
1,260.96 1,471.13 1,681.28 1,891.44 2,311.77 2,732.10 3,152.40 3,782.89
Carlton 8,300.00
1,264.29 1,475.02 1,685.73 1,896.45 2,317.88 2,739.32 3,160.74 3,792.89
Desford 132,974.00 1,286.14 1,500.50 1,714.86 1,929.21 2,357.93 2,786.65 3,215.35 3,858.42
Earl Shilton 279,047.00 1,291.08 1,506.27 1,721.45 1,936.63 2,367.00 2,797.37 3,227.71 3,873.26
Groby 186,001.00 1,279.63 1,492.91 1,706.19 1,919.46 2,346.01 2,772.56 3,199.09 3,838.91
Higham on the Hill 14,783.00 1,264.92 1,475.74 1,686.56 1,897.38 2,319.03 2,740.67 3,162.30 3,794.76
Market Bosworth 107,967.54 1,311.05 1,529.57 1,748.07 1,966.58 2,403.60 2,840.62 3,277.63 3,933,16
Markfield 138,693.00 1,287.44 1,502.02 1,716.59 1,931.16 2,360.31 2,789.46 3,218.60 3,862.32
Nailstone 20,565.00 1,296.42 1,512.49 1,728.56 1,944.63 2,376.77 2,808.92 3,241.05 3,889.26
Newbold Verdon 84,876.00 1,286.63 1,501.07 1,715.51 1,929.94 2,358.63 2,787.71 3,216.57 3,859.89
Osbaston 6,750.70
1,280.66 1,494.12 1,707.56 1,921.00 2,347.89 2,774.79 3,201.66 3,842.00
Peckleton 34,627.00 1,280.82 1,494.30 1,707.77 1,921.24 2,348.19 2,775.14 3,202.07 3,842.48
Ratby 108,098.55 1,281.03 1,494.54 1,708.05 1,921.55 2,348.57 2,775.58 3,202.58 3,843.10
Shackerstone 26,429.00 1,274.61 1,487.05 1,699.49 1,911.92 2,336.80 2,761.68 3,186.53 3,823.84
Sheepy 35,000.00 1,274.43 1,486.84 1,699.24 1,911.65 2,336.46 2,761.28 3,186.08 3,823.30
Stanton under Bardon 12,235.14 1,260.42 1,470.49 1,680.56 1,890.63 2,310.77 2,730.92 3,151.05 3,781.26
Stoke Golding 55,531.00 1,279.46 1,492.72 1,705.96 1,919.20 2,345.69 2,772.19 3,198.66 3,838.40
Sutton Cheney 14,577.741,274.46 1,486.87 1,699.28 1,911.69 2,336.51 2,761.34 3,186.15 3,823.38
Twycross 22,198.00 1,272.72 1,484.85 1,696.97 1,909.09 2,333.34 2,757.58 3,181.81 3,818.18
Witherley 27,944.40 1,261.86 1,472.18 1,682.49 1,892.80 2,313.43 2,734.06 3,154.66 3,785.60
Council Tax Bills will vary according to the amount which local parish councils instruct us to collect and the special expenses which
are levied solely in the urban area of Hinckley. These variations cover the costs of cemeteries, parks and poop scoop schemes.
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