Cash-strapped British households will be hit with eye-watering council tax hike next month

HOUSEHOLDS will be hit with a brutal council tax hike next month, with the average bill going up £109.

For the third year running, almost all town halls will raise levies by the maximum five per cent threshold — meaning the annual cost for band D properties will hit £2,280.

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The figure marks a 20 per cent rise on 2021-22, when the average band D bill was £1,898.

Local authorities...