Issue - meetings

At its meeting on 28 November 2024, Cabinet considered the attached report of the head of finance on the setting of the council tax base for 2025/26.

RECOMMENDATION TO COUNCIL: to

1.    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 2025/2026.

2.    Agree 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 2025/26 be 63,639.9.

3.    Agree 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 2025/26 for each parish be the amount shown against the name of that parish in Appendix A of the report of the head of finance to Cabinet on 28 November 2024.

Council considered the head of finance’s report on setting the council tax base for 2025/26.  Cabinet had considered the report at its meeting on 28 November 2024 and had recommended Council adopt the report recommendations.

The Cabinet member for finance reported that each year the council was required to calculate its council tax base and pass this information on to Oxfordshire County Council, Thames Valley Police, and parish councils, to allow them to calculate their council tax element for the forthcoming year.   

RESOLVED to:

1.    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 2025/2026;

2.    agree 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 2025/26 be 63,639.9; and

3.    agree 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 2025/26 for each parish be the amount shown against the name of that parish in Appendix A of the report of the head of finance to Council on 12 December 2024. 

To consider the Head of Finance’s report.