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All Members of the Council had been granted dispensations to speak and vote on this item.  Cllr A Wade had been granted a dispensation to speak and vote on this item, as an employee of Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service.

The Council considered the Council Tax for 2022/23.

The Chairman moved the recommendations in the report.  Cllr O’Sullivan seconded the motion.

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

Voting for:- Cllrs Alvey, Andrews, Bennison, Brand, Carpenter, Cerasoli, Clarke, Cleary, Corbridge, Craze, Crisell, S Davies, Davis, Delemare, Dowd, Duke, Dunning, Frampton, Glass, Gossage, Harris, Hawkins, E Heron, J Heron, Hoare, Kidd, Lane, McEvoy, Murray, O’Sullivan, Penman, Reid, Reilly, Rickman, Ring, Rippon-Swaine, Sevier, Thierry, Thorne, Tipp, Tungate, C Ward and J Ward.

Voting against:- Cllr Brunsdon.

Abstaining:- Cllrs Clark, Harrison, Kangarani, Osborne, Rackham, A Wade and M Wade.

The recommendations were carried – 43 in favour, 1 against, 7 abstaining.

RESOLVED:

1.1            That it be noted that on 6 December 2021 the Council calculated the Council Tax Base for the year 2022/23:

(a)          for the whole Council area as 72,122.10 [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. 

1.2            To calculate that the Council Tax requirement for the Council’s own purposes for 2022/23 (excluding Parish Precepts) is £13,584,920.

1.3            That the following amounts be calculated for the year 2022/23 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)                                £139,820,116  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)        £119,248,060  being the aggregate of the amounts which the Council estimates for the items set out in Section 31A(3) of the Act.

(c)        £20,572,056    being the amount by which the aggregate at 1.3(a) above exceeds the aggregate at 1.3(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)        £285.24           being the amount at 1.3(c) above (Item R), all divided by the Council Tax Base, Item T (1.1(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)        £6,987,136      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)        £188.36           being the amount at 1.3(d) above less the result given by dividing the amount at 1.3(e) above by Item T (1.1(a) above), calculated by the Council, in accordance with  ...  view the full minutes text for item 71