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The Forest of Dean District Council - Decisions for issue Council Tax Rates 2012/13

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Council Tax Rates 2012/13

 

 

08/03/2012 - Council Tax Resolution 2012/13

Cllr Robinson presented report F.151, explaining that it set out the impact on council tax of the budget. He explained that annex C on agenda page 101 had been replaced due to errors.

 

Cllr Robinson proposed and Cllr Molyneux seconded the recommendations as at the agenda.

 

 

RESOLVED -

 

1.

It be noted that on 16th December 2011 the Council calculated the Council Tax Base 2012/2013

 

(a)              for the whole Council area as 29,477.45 [Item T in the formula in Section 31B of the Local Government Finance Act 1992, as amended (the "Act")]; and

 

 

(b)              for dwellings in those parts of its area to which a Parish precept relates as in the attached Appendix C.

 

 

 

2.

Calculate that the Council Tax requirement for the Council’s own purposes for 2012/2013 (excluding Parish precepts) is £4,783,880.

 

 

 

3.

That the following amounts be calculated  for the year 2012/2013 in accordance with Sections 31 to 36 of the Act:

 

 

 

(a)

£45,816,954

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.

(b)

£39,354,910

being the aggregate of the amounts which the Council estimates for the items set out in Section 31A(3) of the Act.

(c)

£6,462,044

being the amount by which the aggregate at 3(a) above exceeds the aggregate at 3(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)

£219.22

being the amount at 3(c) above (Item R), all divided by Item T (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)

£1,678,164

being the aggregate amount of all special items (Parish precepts) referred to in Section 34(1) of the Act (as per the attached Appendix B).

(f)

£162.29

being the amount at 3(d) above less the result given by dividing the amount at 3(e) above by Item T (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.

 

4.          To note that the County Council, the Police Authority and the Fire Authority have issued precepts to the Council in accordance with Section 40 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 for each category of dwellings in the Council’s area.

5.             That the Council, in accordance with Sections 30 and 36 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992, hereby sets the aggregate amounts shown in the table below as the amounts of Council Tax for 2012/2013 for each part of its area and for each of the categories of dwellings.

Precepting Authority

Band A

£

Band B

£

Band C

£

Band D

£

Band E

£

Band F

£

Band G

£

Band H

£

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gloucestershire County Council

727.00

848.17

969.33

1,090.50

1,332.83

1,575.17

1,817.50

2,181.00

Forest of Dean District Council

108.19

126.23

144.26

162.29

198.35

234.42

270.48

324.58

Police Authority

 

133.13

155.31

177.50

199.69

244.07

288.44

332.82

399.38

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tax Exclusive of Parish charges

968.32

1,129.71

1,291.09

1,452.48

1,775.25

2,098.03

2,420.80

2,904.96

 

6.      That the Council hereby determines that its relevant basic amount of council tax for the financial year 2012/13, which reflects a nil increase, is not excessive having considered the Referendums Relating to Council Tax Increases (Principles) (England) Report 2012-13 which sets out the principles that the Secretary of State has determined will apply to local authorities in England in 2012-13 whereby the Council is required to determine whether its basic amount of Council Tax is excessive in accordance with the principles approved under Section 52ZB of the Local Government Finance Act 1992. 

Voting was as follows.

 

For (40) – Norman Stephens, Roger Yeates, Jim Connell, Gethyn Davies, Brian Jones, Brian Edwards, James Bevan, Judy Davis, Frankie Evans, Carole Allaway Martin, Marrilyn Smart, Len Lawton, Peter Ede, Marion Winship, Gabriella Kirkpatrick, Roy Birch, Arthur Thomas, Julia Gooch, Ian Whitburn, Dave East, Philip Burford, Clive Elsmore, Andrew Gardiner, Terry Glastonbury, Terry Hale, Diana Edwards, Martin Quaile, Patrick Molyneux, Brian Robinson, Jane Horne

 

 

Against (5) – Maria Edey, Frank Baynham, Bill Osborne, Paul McMahon, Roger Sterry,

 

Abstained (13) - Paul Hiett, Graham Morgan, Max Coborn, David Thomson, Bill Evans, Bernie O’Neill, Don Pugh, Bruce Hogan, Val Hobman, Lynn Sterry, Di Martin, Jackie Fraser, Helen Stewart

 

 

 

RESOLVED - To suspend Council procedure rule A1(b) at 10.00pm to allow

the meeting to continue for up to 30 minutes beyond the normal time limit of

three hours.