Agenda item

Report by Alistair Cunningham, Corporate Director.

The Chairman invited Cllr 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 2019/20.

Cllr Whitehead proposed, duly seconded by Cllr Richard Britton, that the

recommendations in the report be adopted.

There being no further debate the meeting;

Resolved:

That the Council approves the resolutions as set out within Appendix A of the report.

1.    It be noted that on 11 December 2018 the Council calculated:

(a)  the Council Tax Base 2019/2020 for the whole Wiltshire Council area as 186,013.00 [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 2019/2020 (excluding precepts) is £270,996,759.

3.    That the following amounts be calculated for the year 2019/2020 in accordance with Sections 31 to 36 of the Act:

(a) £852,038,751 (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) £573,784,806 (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) £1,573.54 (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:

(e) £21,702,097.02 (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) £1,456.87 (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:

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