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Council Tax Increase

This year Letchworth Parish Councillors decided to triple their spending (last year £195,000, this year £600,000).

Where does their spending money come from?

Parish councils are allowed to determine their own spending budget. This is called the precept. There is no limit in law to how much precept the council can decide it wants.

The precept is collected by being added to your Council Tax demand.

The precept now being demanded by Letchworth Parish Council is one of the highest in the country. And for all this money they do nothing useful for us. The Parish Council is completely unnecessary. If it vanished tomorrow you would not notice any difference whatsoever (apart from the lower council tax bill).

2008 Council Tax increase breakdown

Would you like the Parish Council to make this increase again next year, and the year after that, and so on?

There is nothing to stop this happening while Letchworth Parish Council (LGCC) is still formed.