Mendip District Council has confirmed that the council tax now paid by residents in Frome is the highest of all its towns, cities and parishes.

Council tax for Frome householders living in the smallest to the largest property (Bands A to H) is : Frome £1,372.88 - £1,601.70 - £1,830.51 £2,059.32 - £2,516.94 - £2,974.58 - £3,432.20 - £4,118.64.

The closest to Frome is the charges in Wells which are, again for Bands A - H : Wells £1,342.78 - £1,566.59 - £1,790.38 - £2,014.18 - £2,461.77 £2,909.37 - £3,356.96 - £4,028.36

You can see a list of all the latest billings by clicking HERE :

Council Charges across Mendip 2021/2022

Meantime the council has been accused of raising council taxes by a total of 90 per cent since the Independents took control, compared to a rise across Mendip Council during the same period of 19%.

While The Leveller newspaper for Somerset has revealed that three areas in Somerset actually dropped their council tax charges , Burnham on Sea down 1.5 %, Wincanton by -10.91% and Langport - down 0.94%.

They have done a special report on the council tax figures but have said: " The most staggering finding of all our work on precepts was a simple one. Not one town council publishes the figure for the precept and the budget,

tabs of their sites; others as a paper attached to the minutes. This requires you to find the right set of minutes where the budget was passed, simply to find the budget figures.

" Yet this is the most important information they can give us. It is not their money, it is ours. And would it not be reasonable to expect that we should be able to see – easily – how it is being spent on our behalf?"