Issue - meetings

To consider the information that will enable Members to set the Council Tax Base for 2013/14.

(Report attached) 

The Committee considered a report that would enable it to recommend the level for the Council Tax Base for 2014/15. The Executive Director (Finance and Corporate Resources) reminded Members that this was a technical calculation which officers had undertaken and also made reference to the need to agree arrangements in respect of the Non Domestic Rates base.

RECOMMENDED that

1)         the calculation of the Council’s Tax Base for the whole and parts of the area for 2014/15, as detailed in Appendix A to the report be approved;

2)         in accordance with the Local Authorities (Calculation of Tax Base) Regulations 1992, the figures calculated by the Redditch Borough Council as its tax base for the whole area for the year 2014/15 be 24,656.96 and for the parts of the area listed below be:

            Parish of Feckenham                    364.78

            Rest of Redditch                     24, 292.18           

                                                                 24,656.96

3)         authority be delegated to the Section 151 Officer (Executive Director, Finance and Corporate Resources) to approve the NDR1 and sign it on behalf of the Council.