Agenda item

Council Tax Setting 2016/2017

Report by Carolyn Godfrey, Corporate Director

Minutes:

The Chairman reconvened the meeting, and asked Councillor Dick Tonge, 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 2016/17. It was noted that this was based on the council tax base approved by Cabinet at its meeting held on 15 December 2015. The report presented also included details from the precept authorities. Councillor Tonge moved the council tax resolution and this was seconded by the Leader.

 

There being no further debate, the meeting;

 

Resolved

 

1.         To note that on 15 December 2015 the Council calculated:

 

(a)       the Council Tax Base 2016/2017 for the whole Wiltshire Council area as176,780.23[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.         To calculate that the Council Tax requirement for the Council’s own purposes for 2016/2017 (excluding Parish precepts) is £224,723,905.

 

3.         That the following amounts be calculated  for the year 2016/2017 in accordance with Sections 31 to 36 of the Act:

 

(a)

£938,802,024

(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)

£698,662,337

(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)

£240,139,687

(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)

£1,358.40

(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 B £

Band C £

Band D £

Band E £

Band F £

Band G £

Band H £

905.60

1,056.53

1,207.47

1,358.40

1,660.27

1,962.14

2,264.00

2,716.80

 

(e)

£15,415,782

(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)

£1,271.20

(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 C £

Band D £

Band E £

Band F £

Band G £

Band H £

 

847.47

988.71

1,129.96

1,271.20

1,553.69

1,836.18

2,118.67

2,542.40

 

A recorded vote having been taken on the above decisions, the voting was recorded as follows:

 

For the Motion (69):

 

BaronessScottof Bybrook OBE, Cllr Alan Hill, CllrAlan MacRae, CllrAllison Bucknell, CllrAndrew Davis, CllrAnna Cuthbert, CllrAtiqul Hoque, Cllr Bill Moss, CllrBob JonesMBE, Cllr BridgetWayman, CllrChristopher Williams, CllrChuck Berry, CllrDavid Jenkins, Cllr DennisDrewett, CllrCharles Howard, CllrDesna Allen, CllrErnie Clark, CllrFleur deRhe-Philipe,  CllrFred Westmoreland, CllrGeorge Jeans, CllrGlenisAnsell, Cllr GordonKing, Cllr GrahamPayne, Cllr HoracePrickett, CllrHoward Greenman, CllrHoward Marshall, Cllr JacquiLay, Cllr JemimaMilton, Cllr JerryKunkler, Cllr Jerry Wickham, CllrJohn Noeken, CllrJohn Smale, CllrJohn Thomson, CllrJonathon Seed, CllrJose Green, CllrJulian Johnson, CllrLaura Mayes, CllrMagnus Macdonald, CllrMark Packard, CllrMary Champion, CllrMary Douglas, CllrMelody Thompson, CllrMike Hewitt, CllrMollie Groom, CllrNinaPhillips, CllrPat Aves, CllrPaul OatwayQPM, Cllr PeterEdge, Cllr PeterEvans, Cllr PeterHutton, Cllr PhilipWhalley, CllrPhilip Whitehead, CllrPip Ridout, CllrRichardBritton, Cllr Richard Clewer, Cllr RichardGamble, CllrRichard Tonge, CllrRicky Rogers, CllrRoy While, CllrSheila Parker, Cllr Russel Hawker, Cllr Simon Jacobs, CllrSimon Killane, CllrStewart Dobson, Cllr StuartWheeler, Cllr SueEvans, Cllr TobySturgis, Cllr TonyDeane and Cllr Tony Trotman.

 

Against the Motion (2):

 

CllrDavid Pollitt and Cllr JeffOsborn

 

Abstentions (3):

 

CllrChris Caswill, Cllr Ian West and CllrLinda Packard

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