Issue - meetings

To set the Council Tax for 2017/2018.

The recommendations were agreed.

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

The Council considered the Council Tax for 2017/18.

A recorded vote was taken on the recommendation.

The outcome was:

Members voting for: 50

Members voting against: 1

Abstentions 0

Details are shown in Appendix 4 to these minutes.

The motion was carried.

RESOLVED:

1.         That it be noted that on 4 January 2017 the Council calculated the Council Tax Base for the year 2017/18:

(a)             for the whole Council area as 70,155.20 [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. 

2.         To calculate that the Council Tax requirement for the Council’s own purposes for 2017/18 (excluding Parish Precepts) is £11,460,550.

3.         That the following amounts be calculated for the year 2017/18 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)        £141,641,781              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)        £124,712,010              being the aggregate of the amounts which the Council estimates for the items set out in Section 31A(3) of the Act.

(c)        £16,929,771                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)        £241.32                       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)        £5,469,221                  being the aggregate amount of all special items (Parish precepts) referred to in Section 34(1) of the Act.

(f)         £163.36                       being the amount at 3(d) above less the result given by dividing the amount at 3(e) above by Item T (1(a) above), calculated by the Council, in accordance with Section 34(2) of the Act, as the basic amount of its Council Tax for the year specifically for the District Council.  There are no non-parished areas.

(g)                   

being the amounts given by adding to the amount at 3(f) above the amounts of the special item or items relating to dwellings in those parts of the Council’s area mentioned above divided in each case by the amount at 1(b) above, calculated by the Council, in accordance with Section 34(3) of the Act, as the basic amounts of its Council Tax for the year for dwellings in those parts of its area to which  ...  view the full minutes text for item 54