The Voice of Spalding and South Holland
Members of the county council have voted in support of a 3.95 per cent increase in council tax from April.
The proposal, which will need further approval in February, will see an increase of around £45 a year on the bill of Band D properties.
That figure excludes what South Holland District Council, the parish precept and police ask for from residents as well.
And the rise could change as hours after the vote, the government announced it had raised the threshold that council’s such as Lincolnshire can increase their tax without triggering a referendum.
Previously an authority that looks after adult and social care like Lincolnshire could raise council tax up to four per cent. That is now five per cent.
In the same announcement it was revealed that Lincolnshire County Council would also be a part of a pilot scheme that will see the authority keep 100 per cent of what it keeps from collecting business rates.
A county council spokesman said the current figure of what the authority keeps is around 50 per cent.
Members of the county’s Executive committee who voted for the increase were told the council: “continues to face significant reductions in government funding, growing cost pressures from demand led services such as adult and children’s services.”
The rise is similar to the amount the county increased bills this year, and a 3.5 per cent increase was forecast for 2019/20.
