Introduction

Your council tax goes towards paying for:

• council services
• adult social care
• Humberside fire and rescue
• Humberside Police
• your local parish
• other organisations such as the Environment Agency.

The government sets how much each organisation can get. This is based on what they need to provide their services. For more information see other charges.

Your council tax bill does not show payments made to every service provider. For more information see what your council tax pays for.

How much money the council needs

Our budget (gross expenditure) this year is £1,174 million.

This year we need to collect 21.8 per cent of our budget from council tax. This is £256.6 million (including special expenses).

For 2026/27 the government allows councils to increase their council tax by up to 4.99 per cent without the need for a local referendum: see Increase in council tax for 2026/27 for more information.

The table below shows our budget for the year and where our money comes from: