Issue - meetings

The Deputy Chief Executive and Section 151 Officer presented the Council Tax Base 2025/2026 report to the Committee.

Members were informed that this was a statutory report required to allow precepting authorities to calculate how much Council Tax they would raise in the upcoming year.

It was based on data on the Council Tax system as at the 30^th November 2024 and adjusted for the following:

·       The latest dwelling numbers

·       Discounts and Exemptions such as Council Tax Support

·       An allowance of 1% for non-collection (and the Councils in year collection rate was approximately 98%).

·       The new Council Tax base was 26,455.5 Band “D” equivalent properties (last year it was 26,317.1) 

There was 1 Parish in Redditch, Feckenham.  Its Band “D” equivalent figure as part of this total was 382.1 – up from 380.3 last year.

Members welcomed the report, and the Leader thanked the Officers involved.

RECOMMENDED that

1) The calculation of the council tax base for the whole and parts of the area for 2025/26 be approved; and

2) In accordance with the Local Authorities (Calculation of Tax Base) (England) Regulations 2012, the figures calculated by Redditch Borough Council as its tax base for the whole area be 26,455.5 and for the parts of the area listed below be.