Financial information

Your council tax bill: amounts collected on behalf of other authorities

Derbyshire Dales District Council collects council tax on behalf of several other authorities including Derbyshire County Council, the Police, the Fire Authority and the relevant Town or Parish Council.

Each of these authorities instructs Derbyshire Dales District Council (the billing authority) of the amount that it requires us to collect (their precept) for the coming financial year. While Derbyshire Dales District Council has a legal duty to collect the council tax for these other authorities, we have no control over the amount that they instruct us to collect on their behalf.

The government limits the increases that can be applied to council taxes for most of the authorities whose charges are shown on your council tax bill (this is known as capping). This means, for example, that Derbyshire Dales District Council could not increase its element of the council tax by more than 2.99% for 2024/25. However, the government has chosen not to set limits for town and parish councils.

We input the figures in our system, and this is what ultimately makes up the charges on your council tax demand notice.

Police & Crime Commissioner for Derbyshire

Information to be supplied to Council Tax payers - Precept

The document below details the services provided by and on behalf of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Derbyshire:

Derbyshire County Council (DCC)

View the Derbyshire County Council Information leaflet 2024-25 [PDF 349KB]. Also see Budgets and Spending at Derbyshire County Council.

Derbyshire County Council elements of the council tax for 2024/25

Government regulations require Derbyshire County Council to separate the council tax that funds adult social care from the council tax that funds their other services.

The way in which the government requires this calculation to be made means that (for the County Council elements) you cannot simply compare the charge shown on this year’s council tax bill with that shown on last year’s bill to arrive at the % change. That would give an incorrect percentage.

The following provides an explanation for a band D council tax.

  • For 2023/24 the total Derbyshire County Council Band D council tax was £1,477.98. This is made up of £166.97 related to Adult Social Care and £1,311.01 for other County Council Services.
  • For 2024/25 the total Derbyshire County Council Band D council tax is £1,551.73. This is made up of £196.53 related to Adult Social Care and £1,355.20 for other County Council Services.
  • The regulations allow the County Council an increase of up to 2.99% for the County Council element and 2.0% for the Adult Social Care element:

£1,477.98 + 4.99% increase = £1,551.73, an increase of £73.75 overall.

2.99% of £1,477.98 = £44.19 Non Adult Social Care element

2.00% of £1,477.98 = £29.56 Adult Social Care element

  • The government’s regulations require us to add the £29.56 Adult Social Care element of the increase to all the previous Adult Social Care elements since 2016/17

= £196.53 for the Adult Social Care Band D charge for 2024/25 (as shown in the table below).

Chart showing Derbyshire County Council Council Tax for dwellings in each valuation band

  • Then we must take the total band D council tax for 2024/25 of £1,551.73 and deduct the £196.53 from it to leave the charge for the County Council (non Adult Social Care) element only of £1,355.20. These are the elements shown on your bill.
  • The regulations also say that the percentage change shown on the council tax bills should be rounded to 1 decimal place.
  • This is complicated but is how we are required to show the calculation on the council tax bills as per guidance from the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC), which forms part of the government.

Derbyshire Fire & Rescue Authority

Ashbourne Town Council

Derbyshire Dales District Council

Matlock Town Council

Wirksworth Town Council

Environment Agency

Darley Dale Town Council

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