Council Tax
About your Council Tax
Information about your Council Tax bill including your parish or town council precept.
Table showing the Council Tax charge for an average Band D property
Organisation | 2024/25 charge | 2025/26 charge | Increase £ | Increase % |
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Epping Forest District Council | £167.00 | £171.99 | £4.99 | 2.99% |
Parish councils * | £82.10 | £87.17 | £5.07 | 6.18% |
Average local Council Tax | £249.10 | £259.16 | £10.06 | 4.04% |
Essex County Council (including adult social care precept) | £1,522.53 | £1,579.59 | £57.06 | 3.75% |
Essex PFCC (Police) | £246.42 | £260.37 | £13.95 | 5.66% |
Essex PFCC (Fire and Rescue) | £82.62 | £87.57 | £4.95 | 5.99% |
Total Council Tax band D | £2,100.67 | £2,186.69 | £86.02 | 4.09% |
Your Council Tax bill
- Council Tax bill – Explanatory notes and information 2025/26 (pdf 246KB)
- Council Tax bill – Frequently asked questions 2025/26 (pdf 136KB)
Council Tax breakdown 2025 to 2026
- Total Council Tax 2025 to 2026: All Bands (pdf 69KB)
- Local Council Tax 2025 to 2026: All Bands (pdf 90KB)
- Essex County Council 2025 to 2026 – Spending and Council Tax
- Essex PFCC precepts for 2025 to 2026 (pdf 779KB)
Budgets 2025 to 2026
Town and parish councils with precepts more than £140,000:
- Buckhurst Hill Parish Council budget 2025/26 (pdf 41KB)
- Chigwell Parish Council budget 2025/26 (pdf 125KB)
- Epping Town Council budget 2025/26 (pdf 94KB)
- Loughton Town Council budget 2025/26 (pdf 91KB)
- Nazeing Parish Council budget 2025/26 (pdf 93KB)
- North Weald Bassett Parish Council budget 2025/26 (pdf 36KB)
- Ongar Town Council budget 2025/26 (xlsx 19KB)
- Theydon Bois Parish Council budget 2025/26 (pdf 138KB)
- Waltham Abbey Town Council budget 2025/26 (pdf 47KB)