Agenda item

To consider the report of the head of finance regarding the setting of the council tax for the 2014/15 financial year (report to follow). 

Council considered the head of finance’s report on setting the council tax for the 2014/15 financial year. 

The chairman reminded councillors that they were not entitled to vote on any issue affecting the level or administration of the council tax, if they were over two months in arrears with their council tax payments.  Where such circumstances applied, councillors were under a statutory obligation to disclose the restriction placed on them and refrain from voting.  No councillor made any such declaration. 

The chairman called for a recorded vote on the recommendations. 

RESOLVED:

(a)               to note that at its meeting on 11 December 2013 the council calculated the council tax base 2014/15:

(i)         for the whole council area as 46,640.5 [Item T in the formula in Section 31B of the Local Government Finance Act 1992, as amended (the “Act”)];

(ii)        for dwellings in those parts of its area to which a parish precept relates as in column 1 of appendix 1 of the head of finance’s report.

(b)       that the council tax requirement for the council’s own purposes for 2014/15 (excluding parish precepts) is £5,442,480.

(c)        that the following amounts be calculated for the year 2014/15 in accordance with Sections 31 to 36 of the Act:

(i)         £73,643,953 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.

(ii)        £65,287,306 being the aggregate of the amounts which the council estimates for the items set out in Section 31A(3) of the Act.

(iii)       £8,356,647 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

(iv)       £179.17 being the amount at (3)(c) above (Item R), all divided by Item T (1(a) above), calculated by the council, in accordance with Section 31(B) of the Act, as the basic amount of its council tax for the year (including parish precepts).

(v)        £2,914,167 being the aggregate amount of all special items referred to in Section 34(1) of the Act, as set out in column 2 of appendix 1 of the head of finance’s report.

(vi)       £116.69 being the amount at (3)(d) above less the result given by dividing the amount at (3)(e) above by Item T (1(a) 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.

(d)       to note that for the year 2014/15 Oxfordshire County Council has stated the following amounts in precepts issued to the council, in accordance with Section 40 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992, for each of the categories of dwellings shown below:

(e)       to note that for the year 2014/15 the Police and Crime Commissioner for Thames Valley has stated the following amounts in precepts issued to the council, in accordance with Section 40 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992, for each of the categories of dwellings shown below:

(f)         in accordance with Sections 30 and 36 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992, to set the aggregate amounts shown in appendix 3 of the head of finance’s report as the amounts of council tax for 2014/15 for each part of its area and for each of the categories of dwellings shown in appendix 3 of the head of finance’s report.

(g)       to note the allocation of the town and parish element of the council tax reduction scheme grant payable to each parish shown in appendix 4 of the head of finance’s report. 

(h)        to determine that the council’s basic amount of council tax for 2014/15 is not excessive in accordance with principles approved under Section 52ZB Local Government Finance Act 1992.