Decision Maker: Cabinet, Assembly
Decision status: Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Received a report setting out the calculation of the Council Tax Base for 2006/07 and the powers available to the Council to reduce discounts for second homes and long-term empty properties and to award locally determined discounts.
Agreed, in order to comply with statute and assist in the calculation of the Authority’s Council Tax for 2006/07, to recommend the Assembly:
(i) That, in accordance with the Local Authorities (Calculation of Tax Base) Regulations 1992, the amount calculated by the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham as its Tax Base for the year 2006/07 shall be 50,648.40 Band D properties;
(ii) That the discounts for second homes or long term empty properties are not reduced for 2006/07; and
(iii) That locally determined discounts should not be awarded for 2006/07.
Report author: Julie Parker
Publication date: 23/12/2005
Date of decision: 20/12/2005
Decided at meeting: 20/12/2005 - Cabinet
Effective from: 04/01/2006
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