Issue - meetings

Report of the Head of Exchequer

Summary

To consider the calculation of the council tax base for 2009/10 

Recommendation

The Executive is recommended:

(1)       To approve the report of the Head of Exchequer, made pursuant to the Local Authorities (Calculation of Tax Base) Regulations 1992, as amended, and the calculations referred to therein for the purposes of the Regulations;

(2)       To resolve that, in accordance with the Regulations, as amended, the amount calculated by the Cherwell District Council as its council tax base for the year 2009/2010 shall be 49,923; and

(3)       To resolve that the tax base for parts of the area be in accordance with the figures shown in column 13 of Appendix 2.

Agreed

The Head of Exchequer submitted a report which referred to the statutory requirement to determine the Council Tax Base for 2009/2010, and which set out in detail the calculation as to how this should be achieved.

Resolved

(1)   That the report of the Head of Exchequer, made pursuant to the Local Authorities (Calculation of Tax Base) Regulations 1992, as amended, and the calculations referred to therein for the purposes of the Regulations be approved;

(2)   That, in accordance with the Regulations, as amended, the amount calculated by the Cherwell District Council as its council tax base for the year 2009/2010 shall be 49,923; and

(3)   That the tax base for parts of the area be in accordance with the figures (shown in column 13 of Annex 2 to the minutes, as set out in the minute book)

Reasons – in accordance with statutory requirements.  Failure to set a council tax base for 2009/2010 would result in the Council being unable to set its council tax for 2009/2010.