Issue - meetings

To set the Council Tax for 2021/22.

All Members of the Council had been granted dispensations to speak and to vote on this matter.

The Council considered the Council Tax for 2021/22.

The recommendations contained within the report were moved by the Chairman with a minor amendment, to replace all references to “Hampshire Fire and Rescue Authority” with “Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Authority”, which would come into being on 1 April 2021.

The Vice-Chairman seconded the motion.

The recommendations, as amended were put to a recorded vote, the outcome of which was as follows:-

Voting for:- Cllrs Alvey, Andrews, Bellows, Bennison, Blunden, Carpenter, Cerasoli, Clarke, Cleary, Corbridge, Craze, S Davies, Davis, Dunning, Glass, Gossage, Harris, E Heron, J Heron, Hoare, Holding, Kidd, Levitt, McEvoy, O’Sullivan, Penman, Reilly, Rickman, Ring, Rippon-Swaine, Russell, Sevier, Steele, Thierry, Tipp, Tungate and C Ward.

Voting against:- Cllrs Brand, Brunsdon, M Clark, R Clark, J Davies, Delemare, Harrison, Kangarani, Osborne, Rackham, A Wade and M Wade.

Abstaining:- None.

The recommendations were carried – 37 in favour, 12 against.

RESOLVED:

1.            That it be noted that on 7 December 2020 the Council calculated the Council Tax Base for the year 2021/22:

(a)          for the whole Council area as 71,538.70 [Item T in the formula in Section 31B(1) of the Local Government Finance Act 1992, as amended (the “Act”)]; and

(b)       for dwellings in those parts of its area to which a Parish precept relates as in Appendix 3 of the report. 

2.            To calculate that the Council Tax requirement for the Council’s own purposes for 2021/22 (excluding Parish Precepts) is £13,117,360.

3.            That the following amounts be calculated for the year 2021/22 in accordance with Sections 31A, 31B and 34 to 36 of the Local Government and Finance Act 1992 as amended by the Localism Act 2011: -

(a)        £140,444,412       being the aggregate of the amounts which the Council estimates for the items set out in Section 31A(2) of the Act taking into account all precepts issued to it by Parish Councils.

(b)        £120,659,900       being the aggregate of the amounts which the Council estimates for the items set out in Section 31A(3) of the Act.

(c)        £19,784,512         being the amount by which the aggregate at 3(a) above exceeds the aggregate at 3(b) above, calculated by the Council, in accordance with Section 31A(4) of the Act as its Council Tax requirement for the year.  (Item R in the formula in Section 31B(1) of the Act).

(d)        £276.56                being the amount at 3(c) above (Item R), all divided by the Council Tax Base, Item T (1(a) above), calculated by the Council, in accordance with Section 31B(1) of the Act, as the basic amount of its Council Tax for the year (including Parish precepts).

(e)        £6,667,152           being the aggregate amount of all special items (Parish precepts) referred to in Section 34(1) of the Act (as per Appendix 4 of the report).

(f)        £183.36                being the amount at 3(d) above less the result given by dividing the amount at 3(e) above by Item T  ...  view the full minutes text for item 128