Charges for 2025/26

Breakdown of charges 2025/26

The full amount of Council tax you pay consists of five individual charges known as ‘precepts’ from five separate authorities:

• Mid Devon District Council
• Devon County Council
• Devon & Cornwall Police and Crime Commissioner
• Devon and & Somerset Fire and Rescue Authority
• Your local Town or Parish Council.

Every £1 of Council Tax you pay is split in the following way for services delivered by the above Council’s:

The figure for Town and Parish Councils is an average. What you pay will depend on your own Town or Parish Council’s precept. The following table shows the total amount charged by each authority and the average cost to a Band D Council Tax payer:

*On the council tax bill, the increase is rounded to 1 decimal place.

Although Mid Devon District Council have increased our share of Council Tax by 2.99% for 2025/26, our overall proportion has decreased from 9.7% in 2024/25 to 9.5% for 2025/26; due to larger rises in other authorities. A Band D property will be required to pay £239.12. What you are actually charged is based on the Council Tax Banding of your property and is allocated on the following basis:

How does this compare to last year?

The following chart shows how our gross spending plans for 2025/26 compared to 2024/25:

Mid Devon District Council – 2025/26 Budget Overview

The 2025/26 Budget builds on the stable footing reintroduced by the Liberal Democrat administration in 2024/25. It strengthens service delivery and provides resilience by building reserves. The budget process has been collaborative, with multiple opportunities for members to engage. Similarly the views of local people collected through the annual residents’ survey have helped shape our budget decisions.

The economy itself has also calmed, with inflation back closer to the Government 2% target which is slowly lowering interest rates as confidence returns. However, there are still key elements that are continuing to cause the council issues, such as a slow housing market leading to lower income within our planning and building control budgets. Although this has been offset by increases in leisure membership numbers and waste income.

During 2024/25 we finally secured the funding required to unlock significant economic growth in Cullompton, through the development of a relief road. This will create new businesses and jobs as well as thousands of new homes for local residents. We have further invested in new social housing, with many projects now underway. The successful Bin-It 123 Scheme has now been embedded and is already delivering increases in recycling levels of over 5%, which are forecast to increase further.
The stable, improving, position outlined is however running a fine balance at the moment, with significant changes expected in the future driven by changes in national and international politics.

The new Labour Government have signalled some significant areas that will impact the council. The first was to set ambitious housing targets on a scale never seen/delivered before. Just before Christmas, we saw a significant funding stream arbitrarily stopped, deliberately moving vital funding from rural areas into urban areas under the banner of deprivation. It also promised significant change in future funding mechanisms from 2026/27. At the same time, the Government announced wholesale change to the make-up of local government, with options for reorganisation included within a Devolution White Paper.

Internationally, there remains unrest in parts of the world such as Ukraine and Gaza that could knock-on to the economy and thereby affect Mid Devon. The changes to international trade tariffs being imposed by the returning President Trump may also eventually impact on the Council.

This makes forecasting the future financial position and planning future service delivery extremely challenging. We currently forecast a funding shortfall of £3.3m over the next four years, but with the scale of potential change announced, this could materially alter. However, the Council remains in a strong financial position due to a good track record of robust financial management, effective budget management, the achievement of planned cost reductions / efficiencies and healthy levels of reserves.

Town and Parish Council precepts

Below is a list of this year's charges. To find out how much you will pay, find the Parish that you live in the left column and the band that your property is in along the top row. The amount shown is the full charge for the financial year 2025/26 includes all five authority’s charges added together.

• Full list of this year's charges
• Parish precepts 2025/26
• Budgets for organisations with expenditure over £140,000