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Council tax in Bury set to rise by three per cent to help plug budget gap

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Council tax bills for Bury residents are set to rise by around three per cent from April according to the authority’s proposed budget.

Bury Council is planning to raise its element of the council tax bill by 2.94 per cent, with an additional one per cent rise on top of that in the form of a social care levy.

To balance the budget the council is planning to use £14,355,000 of its cash reserves in 2022/2023. READ MORE:'There is a real fear': Crackdown on crime wave in Greater Manchester's 'carjacking capital' It is also planning more than £5.9m of cuts and ‘efficiency savings’ in order to balance the books over the next financial year.

In a report to the council’s scrutiny committee, council leader Eamonn O’Brien said within the context of the continuing financial effects of the pandemic and uncertainty about government funding the process had been ‘the most complex and difficult of recent times’.

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