How we are funded
Council Tax contributes to 14.76% of our overall funding. The rest comes from business rates, government grants and other income such as car parking, licensing and planning permission, for example.
We approved our budget for 2026-2027 on 4th March 2026.
The amount that must be funded from local taxation, business rates and government grants, once all other funding is taken into account, is £817.575 million.
Gross budget
The gross budget is the total amount we plan to spend, before any income is taken into account.
For 2026-27, this is £1.8bn. This includes:
(this includes other government grants which are service-specific)
Since 2010 we have made £551 million in budget savings due to reduced government funding and increased service pressures.
For 2026-27, we have a set Council Tax requirement of £277.030m.
This represents an increase of 4.99% in the council's share of the Council Tax.
4.99%
Increase
£13.168m
Additional income
£1.31
Per week extra to pay for Band A households
Other services that Council Tax pays for
£2,254.37
Council Tax for band D
(4.99% increase)
£293.97
Police
(11% increase)
£101.25
Fire
(5.19% increase)
£24
Liverpool City Region Combined Authority
-
Total
£2,673.59
Band D is used as the standard baseline value (or multiplier of) to calculate Council Tax for all other property bands (A-H). We set our core charge based on a Band D property, with lower bands paying a fraction (for A, for example) and higher bands paying a multiple (for H, for example)
Levies
| Levy | Amount |
|---|---|
| Passenger transport | £38,046,863 |
| Waste disposal | £29,771,000 |
| Environment | £251,061 |
| Fisheries | £82,542 |