Council tax is expected to rise by 5% a year to pay for local services, documents in the Spending Review suggest.
Bills are also expected to rise further to pay for an increase in police funding.
Local authorities have the power to raise the tax by up to 5% every year, although some choose lower increases.
However, Wednesday's Spending Review assumes councils will raise it to the maximum level.
The review allocated a 1.1% increase in grant funding to local government, but said total spending power for councils would rise by 2.6%. That includes funds councils can raise from council tax, as well as things like business rates.
Councils can raise council tax by more than 5% if they hold a local referendum or get approval from central government.
Council tax has generally increased by the maximum of 5% a year recently amid strained town hall budgets. Some councils in particular financial difficulty have increased bills by significantly more.
Councils' choice
On whether councils would have to raise council tax by 5%, Chancellor Rachel Reeves said nothing had been changed in terms of the 5% council tax cap, which was brought in by the previous government.
"It is a cap, councils don't have to increase council tax by 5%," she told BBC Breakfast.
"That's to invest in things like social care, but also as is normal to put money into policing."
Local services ranging from social care and libraries to bin collection and street cleaning are funded through council tax.
The Spending Review also says police spending power will rise by 2.3% a year in real terms.
Council tax includes a so-called police precept, which helps fund services such as regular community policing.
Police and Crime Commissioners can raise this precept by £14 a year for a Band D council tax bill without having to have a referendum. This is in addition to a 5% general rise.
Police budgets are made up of funding from both central government and local government and the increase in police spending power assumes a rise in the police precept, Treasury documents suggest.
"This includes projected spending from additional income, including estimated funding from the police council tax precept," the documents say.
Police leaders have already called for greater funding, with some arguing extra money provided in the Spending Review would quickly go on covering officers' pay