Where does my council tax go?

The council tax you pay goes towards the cost of providing a wide range of services to the people of Salford.

Some of these services include, but are not limited to:

• Administration of a wide range of licences and permits
• Administration of council tax and housing benefits
• Community development
• Consumer advice and protection
• Developing local and contributing to regional transport planning and policies
• Development planning plus building and development control
• Elections, registrar of births, marriages and deaths
• Funeral services at local cemeteries and crematoria
• Health and social care to people who are vulnerable, because of age, disability, mental ill-health or dependency
• Housing including council homes, help for homeless people, housing strategies, advice and support for older citizens
• Implementing e-Government - providing electronic access to services including broadband for schools, internet access in libraries, developing a transactional website including online payments and hundreds of online services
• Leisure facilities including recreation centres, swimming pools, athletics tracks, watersports centre and gymnastics and trampolining centre
• Libraries
• Maintenance of roads, bridges and pavements
• Museums and art galleries
• Parking enforcement and car parks
• Parks and open spaces including over 500ha of open space
• Programmes for economic development and regeneration
• Refuse collection (domestic and trade), provision of recycling facilities, household waste amenity points
• Schools and nursery facilities for children
• Street cleansing
• Support for further and higher education
• Support for the voluntary sector via grants to voluntary organisations and community committees
• Vocational training and youth services

and many more.

In addition to the services provided directly by the city council, your council tax contributes toward the cost of:

• Disposal of waste
• Environment Agency - flood defence
• Greater Manchester Fire Service
• Greater Manchester Police
• Magistrates and Coroner Court services
• Services provided by the Association of Greater Manchester Authorities

More details relating to the wide range of services provided by the city council and/or its partners can be found by visiting our A-Z of council services.

This page was last updated on 1 July 2011