Wandsworth Council Tax payers will still have the lowest rate to pay in the country after the new rate was set for the coming year.

A band D property owner will pay £681 up from £648 last year. Most of the rise is due to the increase in the precept levied by the Mayor of London.

The council says that it "has maintained this record despite the failure of government funding for local services to keep pace with rising costs."

The council's share of the tax will go up by 4.9 per cent to help meet an inflation gap of £5.5m in 2007/2008.

You can find the new tax figure for your property band at www.wandsworth.gov.uk/counciltax

Across London only three councils have set an average bill lower than £1,000. These are Wandsworth, Westminster and the City of London Corporation.

The highest bills are in Kingston where residents will pay a Band D average of £1,523 during 2007/2008.

Details of council tax bills in all 33 London boroughs, rounded to the nearest pound, are set out below.

 

London Borough Council Tax League

	Band D
	2002/3	2003/4	2004/5	2005/6	2006/7	2008/9
Wandsworth	398	580	597	610	648	681
Kingston upon Thames	1072	1221	1308	1375	1449	1,523
Richmond upon Thames	1095	1267	1339	1388	1420	1,491
Havering	1036	1216	1284	1328	1380	1,433
Haringey	983	1174	1259	1323	1384	1,432
Harrow	994	1206	1275	1296	1356	1,423
Waltham Forest	979	1148	1245	1305	1365	1,407
Hounslow	1022	1180	1262	1321	1379	1,395
Hillingdon	988	1164	1215	1267	1330	1,384
Sutton	955	1099	1180	1239	1311	1,376
Bexley	934	1092	1186	1243	1316	1,362
Merton	1015	1133	1206	1244	1306	1,358
Croydon	854	1086	1165	1225	1302	1,358
Barnet	915	1135	1214	1246	1299	1,350
Ealing	885	1114	1192	1251	1309	1344
Enfield	961	1123	1193	1229	1287	1,337
Redbridge	906	1078	1142	1197	1267	1,330
Hackney	1015	1158	1221	1253	1287	1,302
Camden	1001	1171	1200	1232	1286	1,301
Brent	878	1075	1141	1184	1239	1,299
Lewisham	960	1082	1141	1199	1256	1,296
Barking & Dagenham	911	1048	1110	1153	1219	1,278
Greenwich	954	1044	1141	1180	1223	1,266
Newham	885	1004	1059	1112	1163	1,220
Islington	867	1049	1107	1157	1191	1,219
Bromley	880	973	1040	1093	1160	1,218
Hammersmith & Fulham	946	1073	1131	1158	1206	1,193
Lambeth	805	995	1050	1096	1130	1,187
Southwark	961	1049	1071	1099	1133	1,181
Tower Hamlets	819	956	1008	1052	1086	1,140
Kensington & Chelsea	762	895	944	982	1027	1,043
City of London	621	742	773	806	861	900
Westminster	445	570	605	618	659	682
London Boroughs (average)	895	1058	1121	1161	1219	1264

 

All figures include the Mayor of London's precept which went up 5.3 per cent this year to £304.
In the last seven years the Mayor's tax has risen by 147 per cent.