Council Tax: Tax Rates and Bands

(asked on 23rd October 2026) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the distributional impact is of options for reforming the Council Tax banding system.


Answered by
Jim McMahon Portrait
Jim McMahon
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Housing, Communities and Local Government)
This question was answered on 2nd November 2026

The government has not announced any reforms to the council tax banding system. It therefore does not have any assessment of the distributional impacts of any alternative systems.

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