Millions of households across the UK risk seeing a dramatic increase in their council tax from April.
It is understood that roughly three-quarters of councils across the council will hike their taxes by 5 per cent. An official analysis recently showed that nearly all local authorities were expected to hike their council taxes by the maximum amount without a referendum as part of Jeremy Hunt's plans to raise money.
Treasury analysis in November showed around 95 per cent of councils are expected to hike payments by the full 5 per cent permitted. Currently, authorities have to hold a local referendum if they want to increase council tax by more than 3 per cent, however, Mr Hunt previously announced in his autumn statement that this threshold will be increased to 5 per cent.
