Issue - meetings

Cabinet, at its meeting on 1 December 2016, considered a report on the council tax base for 2017/18.

The report of the head of finance, which Cabinet considered on 1 December, is attached.

Recommendations to Council: 

(a)       that the report of the head of finance for the calculation of the council’s tax base and the calculation of the tax base for each parish area for 2017/18 be approved;

(b)       that, in accordance with The Local Authorities (Calculation of Council Tax Base) (England) Regulations 2012, the amount calculated by South Oxfordshire District Council as its council tax base for the year 2017/18 be 55,557.2; and

(c)       that, in accordance with The Local Authorities (Calculation of Council Tax Base) (England) Regulations 2012, the amount calculated by South Oxfordshire District Council as the council tax base for the year 2017/18 for each parish be the amount shown against the name of that parish in Appendix 1 of the report of the head of finance to Cabinet on 1 December 2016.

Council considered Cabinet’s recommendations, made at its meeting on 1 December 2016, on the council tax base for 2017/18.

RESOLVED:

1.         to approve the report of the head of finance for the calculation of the council’s tax base and the calculation of the tax base for each parish area for 2017/18;

2.         that, in accordance with The Local Authorities (Calculation of Council Tax Base) (England) Regulations 2012, the amount calculated by South Oxfordshire District Council as its council tax base for the year 2017/18 be 55,557.2; and

3.         that, in accordance with The Local Authorities (Calculation of Council Tax Base) (England) Regulations 2012, the amount calculated by South Oxfordshire District Council as the council tax base for the year 2017/18 for each parish be the amount shown against the name of that parish in Appendix 1 of the report of the head of finance to Cabinet on 1 December 2016. 

To consider the head of finance’s report. 

Cabinet considered the report of the head of finance on the council tax base for 2017/18.  Before the council tax could be set by the council, a calculation had to be made of the council tax base, which was an estimate of the taxable resources for the district as a whole and for each parish area. 

Cabinet agreed to recommend the council tax base to Council for adoption. 

RECOMMENDED: to Council that:

(a)       the report of the head of finance for the calculation of the council’s tax base and the calculation of the tax base for each parish area for 2017/18 be approved;

(b)       in accordance with The Local Authorities (Calculation of Council Tax Base) (England) Regulations 2012, the amount calculated by South Oxfordshire District Council as its council tax base for the year 2017/18 be 55,557.2; and

(c)       in accordance with The Local Authorities (Calculation of Council Tax Base) (England) Regulations 2012, the amount calculated by South Oxfordshire District Council as the council tax base for the year 2017/18 for each parish be the amount shown against the name of that parish in Appendix 1 of the report of the head of finance to Cabinet on 1 December 2016.