What does council tax pay for?
The North Tyneside Council element of your council tax helps to pay for essential services we provide throughout the borough, like:
- Protecting and supporting older people and vulnerable adults
- Protecting and supporting children and young people
- Collecting, recycling and disposing of your household waste
- Maintaining roads, pavements and street lighting
- Cleaning your streets
- Running your libraries and leisure centres
- Looking after your parks and open spaces
- Many other services including planning, trading standards, elections, cemeteries and registration of births, marriages and deaths
The Adult Social Care Precept element of your council tax was introduced from 1 April 2016 and helps fund the increasing cost of providing Adult Social Care services.
We also collect levies on behalf of
- Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner
- Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Authority
These are to pay for the services they provide. We do not have any control over how much those levies are.
Council tax is not a direct payment for services so it must be paid whether you use the services or not.