£1 in every £5 of UK Council Tax Goes on Pensions

25 January 2012 (PLANSPONSOREurope.com) – Research from the UK’s TaxPayers’ Alliance (TPA) shows £1 in every £5 of council tax raised in the UK now goes on pensions. Employer (taxpayer) contributions amounted to £5.063bn in 2010-11, down from £5.079bn in 2009-10. 

The research also shows in 2010-11 4,548 councillors were enrolled on the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS), an increase of 252 from the previous year’s 4,296 and up from 3,527 in 2007-08.

Regionally, Birmingham spent the most on employer pension contributions in 2010-11 with a total of over £112m, up from £110.3m in 2009-10. The local authority that spends the most on pension contributions per head of their population is Falkirk council in Scotland at £341.24 per head.
 

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