Agenda item - Council Tax Resolutions 2022/23 (Report to Follow)

Agenda item

Council Tax Resolutions 2022/23 (Report to Follow)

Minutes:

The Executive Director of Resources presented the Council Tax Resolutions 2022/23 for Members’ consideration.  The content of the report was fairly technical.  Officers had incorporated information that had been received from precepting organisations, alongside the contribution required for Bromsgrove District Council, when calculating the overall figures.

 

During consideration of this item, Officers explained that initially the Council Tax Resolutions report 2021/22 had been released in error for consideration at the meeting.  This error had been noticed at an early stage and the correct Council Tax Resolutions for 2022/23 had subsequently been issued.

 

RESOLVED to note that at a Cabinet meeting held on 19th January 2022 Members approved the calculated Council Tax Base 2022/23 as:

 

(a)    for the whole Council area as 37,511.05 [Item T in the formula in Section 31B of the Local Government Act 1992, as amended (the “Act”)]; and

 

(b)    for dwellings in those parts of its area to which a Parish precept relates the amounts as shown in Column 4 of the attached Schedule 1.

 

RECOMMENDED that Council approve

 

1)         the calculation for the Council Tax requirement for the Council’s own purposes for 2022/23 (excluding Parish precepts) as £8,937,309.38;

 

2)         the following amounts be calculated for the year 2022/23 in accordance with sections 31 to 36 of the Act: 

 

(a)       £43,846,702 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) (i.e., Gross expenditure);

             

(b)    £33,847,101      being the aggregate of the amounts which the Council estimates for the items set out in Section 31A (3) of the Act. (i.e., Gross income);      

         

(c)    £9,999,601 being the amount by which the aggregate of 1.2.2(a) above exceeds the aggregate at 1.2.2(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 31B of the Act);           

(d)    £266.58 being the amount at 1.2.2 (c) above (Item R), all divided by Item T (1.1(a) above), calculated by the Council, in accordance with Section 31B of the Act, as the basic amount of its Council Tax for the year (including Parish precepts);             

(e)    £1,071,812 being the aggregate amount of all special items (Parish precepts) referred to in Section 34 (1) of the Act (as per the attached Schedule 3);

(f)     £238.00 being the amount at 1.2.2 (d) above less the result given by dividing the amount at 1.2.2 (e) above by Item T (1.1 (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;

(g)    The amounts shown in Column 3 of Schedule 1. These are the basic amounts of the council tax for the year for dwellings in those parts of the Council’s area shown in Column 1 of the schedule respectively to which special items relate, calculated by the Council in accordance with Section 34(3) of the Act. (District and Parish combined at Band D);

(h)   The amounts shown in Column 5 of Schedule 1 being the amount given by multiplying the amounts at 2.2.2(g) above by the number which, in the proportion set out in Section 5(1) of the Act, is applicable to dwellings listed in a particular valuation band divided by the number which in that proportion is applicable to dwellings listed in valuation band D, calculated by the Council, in accordance with Section 36(1) of the Act, as the amounts to be taken into account for the year in respect of categories of dwellings listed in different valuation bands;

 

3)     It be noted that for the year 2022/23, Worcestershire County Council, Police and Crime Commissioner for West Mercia and Hereford and Worcester Fire Authority have issued precepts to the Council in accordance with Section 40 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 for each category of dwelling in the Council’s area as indicated below:

A table showing the valuation bands for properties and payments made to precepting organisations.
 

 


4)         having calculated the aggregate in each case of the amounts at 1.2.2(h) and 1.2.3 above, that Bromsgrove District Council in accordance with Sections 30 and 36 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 hereby sets the amounts shown in Schedule 2 as the amounts of Council Tax for 2022/23. for each part of its area and for each of the categories of dwellings:

 

5)         the Executive Director Finance & Resources be authorised to make payments under Section 90(2) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 from the Collection Fund by ten equal instalments between April 2022 to March 2023 as detailed below:

A table showing the amount payable to each precepting organisation, including from the deficit on the collection fund.
 

 


6)         the Executive Director Finance & Resources be authorised to make transfers under Section 97 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 from the Collection Fund to the General Fund the sum of £10,171,181 being the Council’s own demand on the Collection Fund (£8,927,789.21) and Parish Precepts (£1,071,812) and the distribution of the Deficit on the Collection Fund (£171,580);

 

7)         the Executive Director Finance & Resources be authorised to make payments from the General Fund to Parish Councils the sums listed on Schedule 3 by two equal instalment on 1 April 2022 and 1 October 2022 in respect of the precept levied on the Council;

 

8)         the above resolutions to be signed by the Chief Executive for use in legal proceedings in the Magistrates Court for the recovery of unpaid Council Taxes;

 

9)         notices of the making of the said Council Taxes signed by the Chief Executive are given by advertisement in the local press under Section 38(2) of the Local Government Finance Act 1992;

 

10)     authority be delegated to the Head of Finance and Customer Services (Interim S151) following consultation with the finance portfolio holder to amend the resolution should the Hereford and Worcester Fire Authority Service not approve the estimated figure that is being used in this report. This is due to the Hereford and Worcester Authority Service having their approval meeting after this resolution report has been brought to Council.

 

 

 

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