Issue - meetings

Cabinet acknowledged that legislation required that the Council should resolve the Council Tax Base at a meeting normally between 1 December and 31 January in the financial year preceding that to which the Council Tax applies. This would provide the basis for planning the tax to be collected in any one financial year.

The Council Tax Base provided the number of properties within the district adjusted to account for different valuation bands, various discounts and an assumed collection rate. The assumed collection rate is 97.25%. The report also recommended that there be no changes to the existing Council Tax discounts and reduction.

Councillor Campbell spoke under Council Procedure 20.1.

Councillor Townend proposed, Councillor Crow-Brown seconded and Members agreed the following:

1.  To approve the District's Council Tax Base for 2017/18 as 42,068.58 and the tax base for the towns and parishes in the Council’s administrative area, as set out in the table at Annex 2 (to the Cabinet report);

2.  Not to revise the Council Tax Discounts for 2017/18.