Agenda item

Council Tax Setting 2018/19

Meeting of (Budget and Council Tax Setting Meeting), Council, Tuesday 20 February 2018 10.30 am (Item 9.)

Report by Dr Carlton Brand, Corporate Director

Minutes:

The Chairman invited Councillor Philip Whitehead, Cabinet member for Finance, to present the report which detailed the various calculations in the prescribed format to enable Council to approve the council tax requirement for 2018/19.

Councillor Philip Whitehead proposed, duly seconded by the Leader, that the recommendations in the report be adopted.

There being no further debate, and having been put to a recorded vote, the meeting;

Resolved

1. It be noted that on 12 December 2017 the Council calculated:

(a) the Council Tax Base 2018/2019 for the whole Wiltshire Council area as182,705.43 [Item T in the formula in Section 31B(3) 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 the attached Appendix.

2. Calculate that the Council Tax requirement for the Council’s own purposes for 2018/2019 (excluding precepts) is £258,449,620.

3. That the following amounts be calculated for the year 2018/2019 in accordance with Sections 31 to 36 of the Act:

(a)	£947,510,948	(Gross Revenue Expenditure including transfers to reserves, parish precepts and any collection fund deficit) 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)	£669,257,003	(Gross Revenue Income including transfers from reserves, General Government Grants and any collection fund surplus) being the aggregate of the amounts which the Council estimates for the items set out in Section 31A(3) of the Act.
(c)	£278,253,945	(Net Revenue Expenditure including parish precepts) 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 31A(4) of the Act).
(d)	£1,522.96	(Wiltshire Council band D tax plus average Town & Parish Councils Band D Council Tax) being the amount at 3(c) above (Item R), all divided by Item T (2 above), calculated by the Council, in accordance with Section 31B(1) of the Act, as the basic amount of its Council Tax for the year (including Parish precepts), as shown below:

Band A

Band

1,015.31

1,184.50

1,353.75

1,522.96

1,861.40

2,199.83

2,538.27

3,045.92

(e)

£19,804,325.09

(Aggregate of Town & Parish Council Precepts) being the aggregate amount of all special items (Parish Precepts) referred to in Section 34(1) of the Act (as per the attached Appendix C).

(f)

£1,414.57

(band D Council Tax for Wiltshire Council purposes only) being the amount at 3(d) above less the result given by dividing the amount at 3(e) above by Item T (2 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, as shown below:

Band A

Band B

Band

943.05

1,100.22

1,257.40

1,414.57

1,728.92

2,043.27

2,357.62

2,829.14

For the motion (82):

Baroness Scott of Bybrook OBE, Cllr Alan Hill, Cllr Allison Bucknell, Cllr Andrew Davis, Cllr Andy Phillips, Cllr Anna Cuthbert, Cllr Ashley O'Neill, Cllr Atiqul Hoque, Cllr Ben Anderson, Cllr Bob Jones MBE, Cllr Brian Mathew, Cllr Bridget Wayman, Cllr Chris Hurst, Cllr Christopher Devine, Cllr Chuck Berry, Cllr Clare Cape, Cllr Darren Henry, Cllr David Jenkins, Cllr Deborah Halik, Cllr Derek Brown OBE, Cllr Edward Kirk, Cllr Ernie Clark, Cllr Fleur de Rhe-Philipe, Cllr Fred Westmoreland, Cllr Gavin Grant, Cllr George Jeans, Cllr Gordon King, Cllr Graham Payne, Cllr Graham Wright, Cllr Hayley Spencer, Cllr Horace Prickett, Cllr Howard Greenman, Cllr Ian Blair-Pilling, Cllr Ian Mclennan, Cllr Ian Thorn, Cllr Jacqui Lay, Cllr James Sheppard, Cllr Jane Davies, Cllr Jerry Kunkler, Cllr Jerry Wickham, Cllr Jim Lynch, Cllr John Smale, Cllr John Thomson, Cllr John Walsh, Cllr Johnny Kidney, Cllr Jonathon Seed, Cllr Jose Green, Cllr Laura Mayes, Cllr Mark Connolly, Cllr Mary Champion, Cllr Mary Douglas, Cllr Matthew Dean, Cllr Melody Thompson, Cllr Mike Hewitt, Cllr Nick Murry, Cllr Pat Aves, Cllr Paul Oatway QPM, Cllr Pauline Church, Cllr Peter Evans, Cllr Peter Fuller, Cllr Peter Hutton, Cllr Philip Alford, Cllr Philip Whalley, Cllr Philip Whitehead, Cllr Pip Ridout, Cllr Richard Britton, Cllr Richard Clewer, Cllr Richard Gamble, Cllr Ricky Rogers, Cllr Robert Yuill, Cllr Ross Henning, Cllr Ruth Hopkinson, Cllr Simon Jacobs, Cllr Stephen Oldrieve, Cllr Stewart Dobson, Cllr Stewart Palmen, Cllr Sue Evans, Cllr Sven Hocking, Cllr Toby Sturgis, Cllr Tom Rounds, Cllr Tony Deane and Cllr Tony Trotman.

Against the motion (1):

Cllr Trevor Carbin

Admin Note: The meeting adjourned for lunch at 13:38 and reconvened at 14:24

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