Cabinet considered the head of finance’s report on the need to set the council tax for 2022/23. This was required to calculate the amount of taxable resources to allow Council to set its council tax in February 2022. Oxfordshire County Council, Thames Valley Police and all parish councils within the district would also be informed of the tax base relevant to them.
RECOMMENDED to Council to:
(a) approve the report of the head of finance to Cabinet on 2 December 2021 for the calculation of the council’s tax base and the calculation of the tax base for each parish area for 2022/2023;
(b) 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 2022/23 be 60,343.7; and
(c) 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 2022/23 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 2 December 2021.