A list of some of the local services that your council tax helps pay for
The Council Tax you pay, which makes up 29.6% of total council income in 2023/24, goes towards the cost of providing a wide range of services for the people of Manchester. These include:
- Youth services
- Libraries
- Parks, open spaces and galleries
- Leisure facilities, including swimming pools and recreation centres
- Social care for older people, children and other vulnerable members of the community
- Support for the voluntary sector
- Planning and building control
- Refuse collection, street cleaning and other environmental issues
- Maintenance of roads and bridges
- Traffic management and road safety
- Parking services and control
- Elections, registrars of births, marriages and deaths
- Cemeteries, crematoria and mortuary services
- Consumer protection
- Economic development and regeneration
- Community development services
- Housing, including the provision of social housing, housing strategy and advice and services for the homeless
- Housing Benefits and Council Tax administration.
The Council is also responsible for schools and other educational services for children but these are paid for through the Dedicated Schools Grant. This is a grant from the Government and does not fall on the Council Tax.