Agenda item

Council tax 2020/21

To consider the report of the interim head of finance on the setting of the council tax for the 2020/21 financial year - report to follow.

 

 

Minutes:

Council considered the report of the interim head of finance on the setting of the Council Tax for the 2020/21 financial year.

 

In accordance with regulations requiring councils to record the names of those councillors voting in favour, against or abstaining from any vote on the council tax the chairman called for a recorded vote which was carried with the voting being as follows:

 

For

Against

Abstain

Councillors

Councillors

Councillors

Pieter-Paul Barker

 

 

David Bartholomew

 

 

Robin Bennett

 

 

David Bretherton

 

 

Sam Casey-Rerhaye

 

 

Sue Cooper

 

 

Peter Dragonetti

 

 

Stefan Gawrysiak

 

Elizabeth Gillespie

 

Sarah Gray

 

Victoria Haval

 

Simon Hewerdine

 

 

Lorraine Hillier

 

 

Alexandrine Kantor

 

 

 

 

Mocky Khan

 

 

George Levy

 

 

Lynn Lloyd

 

 

Axel Macdonald

 

 

Andrea Powell

 

 

Leigh Rawlins

 

 

Jo Robb

 

 

Sue Roberts

 

 

David Rouane

 

 

Anne-Marie Simpson

 

 

Alan Thompson

 

 

David Turner

 

 

Ian White

 

 

Celia Wilson

 

 

 

28

 

0

 

0

 

RESOLVED: 

 

1.    To note that at its meeting on 19 December 2019 the council calculated the council tax base 2020/21:

(a)    for the whole council area as 57,848.5 [Item T in the formula in Section 31B 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 column 1 of appendix 1.

2.    That the council tax requirement for the council’s own purposes for 2020/21 (excluding parish precepts) is £7,302,795

3.    That the following amounts be calculated for the year 2020/21 in accordance with Sections 31 to 36 of the Act:

(a)    £77,801,531 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)    £64,974,585 being the aggregate of the amounts which the council estimates for the items set out in Section 31A(3) of the Act.

(c)    £12,826,946 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 of the Act).

(d)    £221.73 being the amount at (3)(c) above (Item R), all divided by Item T (1(a) above), calculated by the council, in accordance with Section 31B of the Act, as the basic amount of its council tax for the year (including parish precepts).

(e)    £5,524,151 being the aggregate amount of all special items referred to in Section 34(1) of the Act, as set out in column 2 of appendix 1.

(f)     £126.24 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 for dwellings in those parts of its area to which no parish precept relates.

4.    To note that for the year 2020/21 Oxfordshire County Council has stated the following amounts in precepts issued to the council, in accordance with Section 40 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992, for each of the categories of dwellings shown below:

Band A

£1,018.29

 

 

Band B

£1,188.01

 

 

Band C

£1,357.72

 

 

Band D

£1,527.44

 

 

Band E

£1,866.87

 

 

Band F

£2,206.30

 

 

Band G

£2,545.73

 

 

Band H

£3,054.88

 

 

 

5.    To note that for the year 2020/21 the Police and Crime Commissioner for Thames Valley has stated the following amounts in precepts issued to the council, in accordance with Section 40 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992, for each of the categories of dwellings shown below:

Band A

£144.19

 

Band B

£168.22

 

Band C

£192.25

 

Band D

£216.28

 

Band E

£264.34

 

Band F

£312.40

 

Band G

£360.47

 

Band H

£432.56

 

 

6.    That the council, in accordance with Sections 30 and 36 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992, hereby sets the aggregate amounts shown in appendix 3 as the amounts of council tax for 2020/21 for each part of its area and for each of the categories of dwellings shown in appendix 3.

7.    To determine that the council’s basic amount of council tax for 2020/21 is not excessive in accordance with principles approved under Section 52ZB Local Government Finance Act 1992.

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