'What's your biggest bill?' poll discussion

OllyO07

Surprised that Childcare isn't on here as an option. Mine is double the amount of our mortgage and 4 times my council tax!:o

Diesel44

For me it's gas and Electric, council tax a close second.

XRAT

Not quite sure which I should have answered here, our single largest household bill is council tax so I chose that..., but there are four of us who live here.
Our largest household expenditure (after food) however is the vehicle "fleet" which is broken down into tax, insurance, petrol etc. for each vehicle, and further divided by each owner.

MacsReturns

Council tax for me ~£94pcm, just... car costs come a close second (including tax, insurance, fuel & maintenance), both in the £900 per year range. Gas and electricty are WAY down the list, £17 and £15 respectively.... I just realised that "Beer" wasn't on the list :beer:

M.D.R.

st1sof wrote: »

Childcare by a country mile.

You took the words out of my mouth...
Childcare cost is nearly 5x mortgage and council tax combined :eek:

Alantheaged

I'm not really surprised that Council Tax is top of the list given (Income Tax should surely be top apart from for the rich people who know how to avoid it) - the council leaders have voted themselves huge increases in salaries in the last few years and we now know that 25% of all we pay is just to pay for all the goldplated pensions for the local government workers who have already retired - the future will be worse. Oh and of course I think we have to shell out for the odd person on benefit who gets a free house/doesn't pay council tax/everything else is free especially if they have kids etc etc. Presumably we will also soon have to shell out for yet another layer of initiatives that the Tories are now inventing. But, of course, as the Lib Dems and Alister Darling keep reminding us, if we weren't shelling out for their inflated salaries and keeping the local (and national) government workers in jobs (some of which they now publicly admit are non-jobs), then the country would collapse in recession!!

You couldn't make it up.

Oh - I notice that there are some complaints on earlier posts that people are not getting the service they expect. Really. This is local government they are expecting things from. But Local Government is now rapidly emulating national government in its bad practices, corruption, inefficiency and general malaise. On that note, try rereading "Yes Minister" - it is brilliantly aligned to the way the new government that nobody voted for is working so nothing appears to have changed in 30 years. Note that the BBC has not included it in its list of repeats for some unfathonable reason, but the book is still available.

archer5

I thought the charges I pay each month on my current account but suppose that could come and does come under the category of debt.
Charges for 'not' making payments by DD have also snuck in. Thanks to this website - I now know it's reduce, reduce, REDUCE the balances outstanding. I'm on a Mission.

sjh182

i've gone for council tax @ £900 p.a. but its a close run thing with commuting which is around £800 including fuel and a proportion of other motoring costs.

most of our other bills are minute in comparison elec/gas £18/£17 pcm respectively, phones around £10 for the landline, £10 every 4-6 months for my mobile and around £15 a month for OH and £12 a month for water

one of our largest costs (not in the list) is insurances with car, home, pet and life coming to over £800 p.a.

elevenoverzero

Alantheaged wrote: »

I'm not really surprised that Council Tax is top of the list given (Income Tax should surely be top apart from for the rich people who know how to avoid it) - the council leaders have voted themselves huge increases in salaries in the last few years and we now know that 25% of all we pay is just to pay for all the goldplated pensions for the local government workers who have already retired - the future will be worse. Oh and of course I think we have to shell out for the odd person on benefit who gets a free house/doesn't pay council tax/everything else is free especially if they have kids etc etc. Presumably we will also soon have to shell out for yet another layer of initiatives that the Tories are now inventing. But, of course, as the Lib Dems and Alister Darling keep reminding us, if we weren't shelling out for their inflated salaries and keeping the local (and national) government workers in jobs (some of which they now publicly admit are non-jobs), then the country would collapse in recession!!

You couldn't make it up.

Except you have made it up...If you did some research instead of just reading what Richard Littlejohn tells you then you would realise that "the gold plated pensions" for civil servants and local government workers is just a myth.

However councils are far from efficent and cuts are needed.

DJ_Mike

"Debt repayments" seems awfully vague. My mortgage is a debt, therefore it is the most expensive thing I pay for every year. Technically rent could be considered a debt (that you owe to the person you rent from for the roof over your head) but technically it's just a service, so it would fall under "other".

But if neither mortgage nor rent falls into your "debt repayment" category, then petrol is the most expensive thing I pay for every year.