Council tax (5)
I believe the answer is:
rates
<span class="explanation-format__ClueExplanation">'<span class="explanation-format__original">council tax</span>' is the definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(I've seen this before)</span><br/ ><br/ >This is the entire clue.<br/ ></span>
(Other definitions for rates that I've seen before include "Former local tax" , "Charges, deserves" , "(Old) property taxes" , "Former means of local taxation" , "estimates?" .)