Council Tax leaflet 2025-2026

Pages in Council Tax leaflet 2025-2026

  1. 1. How your Council Tax helps to fund Reigate & Banstead’s services
  2. 2. You are here: How your Council Tax bill is calculated

2. How your Council Tax bill is calculated

We collect your Council Tax on behalf of all these authorities to pay for services

 

Surrey County Council
£1,846.35
up £87.75 (4.99%) + Surrey Police
£337.57
up £14.00 (4.15%) + Reigate & Banstead
Borough Council
£264.87
up £7.69 (2.99%) = Band D average
£2,448.79
up £109.44 (4.6%)

If you live in Horley or Salfords and Sidlow, you will pay extra for their services.

  • Horley Town Council = £55.21, up £1.21 (2.24%)
  • Salfords and Sidlow Parish = £33.06, up £0.96 (2.98%)

How your Council Tax is allocated

Pie chart showing: 75p
Surrey County
Council, 14p
Surrey Police and 11p
Reigate & Banstead
Borough Council

Where our money comes from

Pie chart showing: Income £45.4m (67%)
(from fees, grants,
benefits2, recycling,
and investments) and Council Tax
£17.1m (25%) and Government grants
£5.3m (8%)
(retained business rates)

Note: the income from benefits includes £25.6m Government grant to fund housing benefit payments to claimants, based on 2024-25 funding level as 2025-26 determination not available at time of publication.

How our budget is spent

Graph showing how the 2025/26
budget £67.8m is spent. 29.2m revs, bens and fraud. 11.3m corp services. 8.4m recycling, refuse and street cleaning. 3.8m property and asset management.

Note: the 2025/26 budget £67.8m is excluding capital charges

Some of the things we do each year for our 11 per cent share (in a normal year)

Some of the things we do: maintain over 100 play areas and green spaces. Manage over 3000 planning and related apps. Award over £200,000 in grants to vol orgs.

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