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 - 77.8p
• Dacorum Borough Council - 10.6p
• The Police and Crime Commissioner for Hertfordshire - 11.6p

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

Dacorum Borough Council

We provide a range of services for our 155,000 residents. 10.6 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, 5 Green Flag parks and 2 Queen Elizabeth II Fields in Trust
• Funding our Place Strategy and economic growth work and support for local businesses. Place Strategies are multi-agency programmes which will guide the transformation of our key towns
• 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.
  

More information

•  Dacorum Borough Council - Your Council Tax 2024-2025 (PDF 2.4MB)

Hertfordshire County Council

Hertfordshire County Council provides a substantial number of services. 77.8 per cent of your Council Tax bill goes to fund these important 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

• Visit Hertfordshire County Council's website.

The Police and Crime Commissioner

11.6 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

•  Police and Crime Commissioner Council Tax information 2024-2025 (PDF 1.2MB)

Parish and town councils

• Allotments
• Village halls
• Cemeteries and closed churchyards.

More information

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