What your Council Tax pays for

The Council Tax you pay helps fund essential services provided by us, Hertfordshire County Council, and Hertfordshire Police.

Every £1 of your Council Tax is shared in the following way:

  • Hertfordshire County Council - 78p
  • Dacorum Borough Council - 11p
  • The Police and Crime Commissioner for Hertfordshire - 11p

For more information on how each authority spends its part of the Council Tax, please see below:

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  • Dacorum Borough Council

    We provide a range of services for our 150,000 residents. Eleven per cent of your Council Tax bill goes to fund these important services, including:

    • Bins and recycling, including collection of 12 million waste and recycling bins per year
    • Keeping streets and parks clean and tidy, including 62 play areas, five Green Flag parks and two Queen Elizabeth II Fields in Trust
    • Maintaining playgrounds and play areas across the borough
    • Environmental Health Services, including pest control, food inspection, advice and anti-social behaviour
    • Licensing
    • Community Grants, including funding and support for community groups
    • Planning Services, including the Local Plan, planning permission and enforcement
    • Housing Advice and Benefits, providing advice to those in housing need and processing housing benefit, Council Tax support and discretionary housing payments.
    • Find out more about our spending and income.

    More information

  • Hertfordshire County Council

    Seventy-eight per cent of your Council Tax bill goes to Hertfordshire County Council to fund these key services, including:

    • Adult social services
    • Children’s social care, including adoption and fostering
    • Schools and education
    • Libraries and archives
    • Highways, roads and pavements, including reporting faulty street lights, potholes or roadworks
    • Recycling, waste and environment
    • Births, deaths, marriages and citizenship
    • Health in Hertfordshire
    • Fire and rescue, including fire stations and rescue services
    • Business and trading standards.

    More information

  • The Police and Crime Commissioner for Hertfordshire

    Eleven per cent of your Council Tax bill goes to fund policing and crime prevention, including:

    • Setting a five-year Police and Crime Plan and determining local policing priorities
    • Driving down crime and providing an efficient and effective service for the public.

    More information

  • Parish and town councils
    • Allotments
    • Village halls
    • Cemeteries and closed churchyards.

    More information

    For further details, please contact your parish or town council.

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