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The cost of one’s council tax depends on where they live, which band their home is in, who they live with and how much cash their local council needs to raise.

A Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities spokesperson told FactCheck: “We recognise the pressures councils are facing and have made almost £60 billion available over the next financial year – a nine percent increase on 2022-23 – with the most deprived areas of England receiving 17 percent more per household this year than the least deprived.

“Our approach to council tax balances the need to deliver vital services while protecting residents from excessive increases and we expect local authorities to take into consideration the challenges many households are facing.”

As bills continue to rise, a Parliamentary petition is calling for the Government to make state pensioners exempt from paying council tax.