council tax

1. 1.

   a tax levied on households by local authorities; based on the estimated value of the property and the number of people living in it

   Broaderproperty tax

   United Kingdom

Questions about council tax

What does council tax mean?

council tax means "a tax levied on households by local authorities; based on the estimated value of the property and the number of people living in it".

Is council tax a common word?

council tax is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.