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Where your Council Tax goes

The Council Tax you pay goes towards the cost of providing a wide range of services to the people of Rochdale.

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

  • Administration of a wide range of licences and permits
  • Administration of Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit
  • Car parks and parking enforcement
  • Community development
  • Consumer advice and protection
  • Elections, registrar of births, deaths and marriages
  • Funeral services at cemeteries and crematoria
  • Health and social care to the vulnerable
  • Housing
  • Leisure facilities
  • Libraries
  • Maintenance of roads
  • Museums and art galleries
  • Parks and open spaces
  • Refuse collection and waste recycling
  • Schools and nursery facilities
  • Street cleaning
  • Youth services.

and many more.

As well as the services provide directly by the council, your Council Tax contributes towards:

  • Greater Manchester Fire Service
  • Greater Manchester Police
  • Waste disposal.