Your money · 2026/27
Council Tax explained
Your bill has three parts. Only 9.5p in every pound goes to Epsom & Ewell Borough Council. This is the borough's final year of setting a council tax before East Surrey Council takes over.
What do I pay?
Choose your valuation band. Figures exclude discounts and Council Tax Support.
Band D · total bill
£2,530.84
per year
Surrey CC
£1,938.42
Police
£352.57
EEBC
£239.85
Split of a Band D bill
Surrey County Council
£1,938.42
76.6% · Adult social care, children's services, highways, schools, libraries, fire service.
Surrey Police & Crime Commissioner
£352.57
13.9% · Policing across Surrey. Provisional figure at the time the budget was set.
Epsom & Ewell Borough Council
£239.85
9.5% · Bins and recycling, parks, planning, housing and homelessness, car parks, leisure, street cleansing.
EEBC Band D charge
£239.85
up £6.93 (2.98%) on 2025/26
That is per week
£4.61
for all borough services
Households (Band D equivalent)
34,083.2
the council tax base for 2026/27
Total collected for all three
£86.3m
EEBC keeps £8.17m
Total bill by band
Darker segment shows the borough's share of each bill.
Why 2.98% and not more?
Districts may raise council tax by £5 or 2.99% (whichever is higher) without a referendum. EEBC chose 2.98% for rounding, adding £6.93 a year or about 13p a week at Band D.
A freeze would have cost the council £291,226 every year going forward, with no compensating government support.
CPI inflation was 3.8% in September 2025, so this is a below inflation rise in real terms.
Changes approved with the 2026/27 budget
From 1 April 2026
Empty homes premium
Council approved changes to how council tax is charged on long term empty properties (Appendix 13 of the Budget Report). Owners of empty homes should check their bill.
From 1 April 2027
Second homes premium
A second homes policy takes effect on vesting day, so it will be administered by East Surrey Council rather than EEBC.
From April 2027
Who bills you next year
East Surrey Council becomes the billing authority. The shadow authority elected on 7 May 2026 sets the 2027/28 council tax for the whole of east Surrey.
Sources
Band figures from the Budget Report 2026/27 (recommendation 1.7), approved by Full Council on 10 February 2026 by 19 votes to 6 with 4 abstentions. Band H is shown at twice the Band D charge; the printed table in the report contained a typographical error for Band H that was corrected at the meeting. Surrey Police figure was provisional pending the final precept. Budget Report · Meeting papers and minutes