Agenda item

Council Tax Setting 2018/19

Meeting of South Somerset District Council, Thursday 22nd February 2018 7.30 pm (Item 114.)

Decision:

RESOLVED:

That Full Council agreed to:-

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

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:

A-	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
906.92	1,088.30	1,269.69	1,451.09	1,632.46	1,995.23	2,358.00	2,720.77	3,264.92

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.

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

	2017/18 £	2018/19 £		Increase %
South Somerset District Council	157.48	162.48		3.18
Somerset County Council	1,082.36	1,115.99		5.99
Somerset County Council (Adult Social Care)	42.43	76.17
Police and Crime Commissioner for Avon and Somerset	181.81	193.81		6.60
Devon And Somerset Fire and Rescue Authority	81.57	84.01		2.99%
	1,545.65	1,632.46		5.62%
Town and Parish Council (average)	87.73		87.15		-0.66%
	1,630.38		1,719.61		5.47%

Reason:

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

(Voting: unanimous in favour)

Minutes:

The Portfolio Holder for Finance and Legal Services advised that at paragraph 9 in the report, a minor error had been identified in column G in the table. The figure should read 1,859.98 and not 1,859.99. This had been corrected on the website.

In response to a question the Monitoring Officer confirmed that Council Standing Orders 16.4A stated that, immediately after any vote was taken at a budget decision meeting of the Council there must be recorded in the minutes of that meeting the names of the Members who cast a vote for or against the decision or who abstained from voting.

A recorded vote was taken and Members unanimously approved the formal council tax resolutions and individual tax settings for 2018/19.