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Wigan council tax expected to increase by around 3 pc to plug £9m budget gap
10.02.2022 - 15:16 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Council tax is expected to increase by around 3 pc from April in Wigan.
Wigan council is considering raising the adult social care precept by 1 pc together with an increase in the council tax general levy of around 2 pc.
It comes as the local authority looks for savings of £9m as it prepares a budget for the next year, having previously planned to freeze council tax until 2025.
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But Wigan council leader David Molyneux said he is 'quite confident' a council tax hike would mean no cuts to services or job losses in the next financial year.
Speaking to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, he said the town hall 'fully understands' the pressures on residents hit by the cost of living crisis.
However, he said the government expects councils to raise money in this way.
He said: "We want to ensure that, certainly for people working in the authority, there's no job losses and no cuts to services.
"People are facing additional financial pressures. To think, if we had social service cuts, children services cuts, everything else cut, the pressure would have been even greater.
"The council tax allows us to maintain services to the level which are in a good place. That's what we intend to do."
The Labour leader said the council tax hike will raise around £3.5m next year.
This will offset some of the £9m that the town hall needs to find in savings of which £5m is caused by cost pressures in social care and £4m by inflation.
The council's energy costs are expected to go up by 70 pc next year while the general rate of inflation will be around 7 pc, according to the latest estimates.
More cash will be pumped into the town hall's failing children services
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