Decision details

RESOLVED:

That Full Council agreed to:-

a.

approve the formal council tax resolutions referred to in paragraphs 6 to 15;

b.

approve the individual tax settings as follows:

   i.    that the Somerset County Council; Police and Crime Commissioner for Avon and Somerset and Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Authority has stated that amounts shown in paragraphs 9 to 12 respectively of this report in precept issued to the Council, in accordance with Section 40 of the Local Government Act 1992 (as amended), for each of the categories of dwelling:

  ii.    that the total amount of council tax for each band of property in the South Somerset area for 2018/19 be as given in the table below:

NB The above figures exclude all town/parish precepts and assume that the figures provided by Somerset County Council and Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue are approved at their full Council meetings on 21^st February and 16^th February 2018 respectively.  If any changes are required they will be reported to the meeting.  Police & Crime Commissioner for Avon and Somerset approved their figures on the 1^st February 2018

 iii.       that, having calculated the totals of each precepting authority’s amounts (including town and parish precepts), The Council (in accordance with Section 30(2) of the Local Government Act 1992) (as amended) hereby sets the amounts shown at TOTAL in the table shown at Appendix A as the council taxes for the financial year 2018/19 for each category of dwelling.

c.

note that if the formal Council Tax Resolution is approved, the total Band D Council Tax as follows:

Reason:

To approve the final council tax resolutions for 2018/19.