Tax trebles in town's cash crisis

People who live in a small town in Norfolk (East of England) will have to pay more council tax, since their local administration has trebled the amount it charges them. The Council Hall in south Norfolk has raised the tax from £60 to £184 a year.
The town council chairwoman, Sue Kuzmic said that the council had inherited the financial crisis.
All this tax rising is due to build up reserves, South Norfolk District Council has made a £40,000 loan to Harleston as a short term measure and the town council will raise £295,000 through trebling its precept. Kuzmic stands that to obtain the necessary money from South Norfolk, they have to have a policy of how they’re going to build up the reserves in the next three years, and they assure that this may increase their budget and they’ll be able to bring the precept down.
Others, more sensible, say that they don’t want to make any promises which they cannot keep and deliver.
The decision was voted in unanimously after it was revealed that the council would be £65,000 in debt if it did nothing and carried on spending at the same rate.
In addition to all what government said, they partly blame the financial crisis as an excuse for raising the tax in line with inflation and the cost of several large projects like a leisure centre, a new cemetery and the provision of free parking in the town.