Council tax and addition errors

[Vir Campestris]

My council tax (SCambs) has an oddity.

The percentage increase in the total is larger than the percentage
increase in any of the bits that make it up.

I know this is the same in Peterborough.

On mine apparently adult social care has gone up by 30%, but it says 3%.

Is this the case for other areas?

Andy

[Matthew Woodcraft]

Post by Vir Campestris
My council tax (SCambs) has an oddity.
The percentage increase in the total is larger than the percentage
increase in any of the bits that make it up.
I know this is the same in Peterborough.
On mine apparently adult social care has gone up by 30%, but it says 3%.
Is this the case for other areas?

The mistaken adult social care percentage-rise figure is the same on my
Cambridge City bill. The equivalent order-of-magnitude mistake was
there on the bill for each of the previous four years too.

-M-

[Roland Perry]

Post by Vir Campestris
My council tax (SCambs) has an oddity.
The percentage increase in the total is larger than the percentage
increase in any of the bits that make it up.
I know this is the same in Peterborough.
On mine apparently adult social care has gone up by 30%, but it says 3%.
Is this the case for other areas?

East Cambs (although because it's a County Tax, it should apply in all
districts equally):

Actual Reported

19/20 * 2.0%
20/21 27% 2.0%
21/22 11% 1.0%
22/23 31% 3.0%

* don't have this figure to hand

However, it's clear that the single-digits figure is the percentage
increase of the ASC compared to the *total* County Tax bill. Which
strikes me as very odd.

If they want to disguise the percentage figure (to avoid scaring the
horses) they should make a sub-total of the two elements of the County
Tax, and quote the percentage by which *that* increased.