Issue - meetings

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.