Issue - meetings

This Supplementary 1 includes an updated version of the report and a new Appendix 2.

The Cabinet Member for Finance presented a revised report, which the Chair agreed could be considered at the meeting under the provisions of Section 100B(4)(b) of the Local Government Act 1972, in respect of the Council Tax Base for 2014/15.

The Cabinet Member referred to the powers available to the Council to set locally determined discounts, which were proposed to remain unchanged from 2013/14.  The Cabinet Member also advised that the Council’s new homes programme had contributed to an increase in the number of Band D equivalent properties for 2014/15 which would increase Council Tax revenue by up to £576,000 while, at the same time, enabling the Council to freeze the level of Council Tax for a sixth consecutive year should it choose to do so at the meeting of the Assembly on 19 February 2014.

Cabinet resolved:

(i)  That the existing discounts and exemptions for 2013/14, including the Council Tax Support Scheme as set out at Appendix B to the report, remain unchanged and those prescribed by statute be applied in calculating the tax base for 2014/15;

(ii)  That, consistent with previous decisions of the Council, no locally determined discounts based on categories of property or occupier be awarded for 2014/15;

(iii)  That, consistent with previous decisions of the Council, there be no award of reductions for prompt payment for 2014/15; and

(iv)  On the basis of (i), (ii) and (iii) above and in accordance with the Local Authorities (Calculation of Tax Base) (England) Regulations 2012, that the amount calculated by the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Council as its tax base for the year 2014/15 shall be 40,522.12 Band ‘D’ properties.