Agenda item

To consider the report of the head of finance on the setting of the council tax for the 2023/24 financial year. Following receipt of all the required information the report is being checked by officers prior to despatch.

Council considered the report of the head of finance on the setting of the Council Tax for the 2023/24 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 chair called for a recorded vote which was carried with the voting being as follows:

 

 

For	Against	Abstain
Councillors	Councillors	Councillors
Anna Badcock
Pieter-Paul Barker
David Bartholomew
Robin Bennett
Sam Casey-Rerhaye
Sue Cooper
Peter Dragonetti
Maggie Filipova-Rivers
Stefan Gawrysiak
Kate Gregory
Victoria Haval
Lorraine Hillier
Kellie Hinton
Alexandrine Kantor
Mocky Khan
Lynn Lloyd
Jane Murphy
Caroline Newton
Andrea Powell
Leigh Rawlins
Jo Robb
Sue Roberts
David Rouane
Anne-Marie Simpson
Ian Snowdon
Alan Thompson
David Turner
Andrea Warren
Ian White
Celia Wilson
30	0	0

 

RESOLVED:

1.    To note that at its meeting on 8 December 2022 the council calculated the council tax base 2023/24:

(a)    for the whole council area as 61,349.5 [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 2023/24 (excluding parish precepts) is £8,665,003

3.    That the following amounts be calculated for the year 2023/24 in accordance with Sections 31 to 36 of the Act:

(a)    £87,755,386 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)    £72,428,526 being the aggregate of the amounts which the council estimates for the items set out in Section 31A(3) of the Act.

(c)    £15,326,860 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)    £249.83 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)    £6,661,857 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)     £141.24 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 2023/24 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	£1,156.02
Band B	£1,348.69
Band C	£1,541.36
Band D	£1,734.03
Band E	£2,119.37
Band F	£2,504.71
Band G	£2,890.05
Band H	£3,468.06

 

5.    To note that for the year 2023/24 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	£170.85
Band B	£199.33
Band C	£227.80
Band D	£256.28
Band E	£313.23
Band F	£370.18
Band G	£427.13
Band H	£512.56

 

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 2023/24 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 2023/24 is not excessive in accordance with principles approved under Section 52ZB Local Government Finance Act 1992.