Agenda item

To consider and to determine the statutory calculations required in respect of Council Tax and to set the Council Tax for each band for each part of the Borough for the financial year commencing on 1 April 2015 and terminating on 31 March 2016 – report attached.

Having determined its Council Tax Requirement for 2015/16, the Council was now required formally to approve the Council Tax for the area taking into account precepts received from Surrey County Council, Surrey Police and Crime Commissioner and the Parishes.

In approving the Council Tax for 2015/16, the Council noted that the Executive, at its meeting on 6 January 2015, had approved the draft Council Tax base for 2015/16 but had delegated the final setting of the base to the Executive Head of Finance. The tax base had been set at 36,600.49 Band D equivalent properties. 

Resolved

1.               To note that the Council Tax Base for 2015/16 was calculated in accordance with regulations made under Section 33(5) of the Local Government Finance Act 1992:

a)               for the whole Council area as 36,600.49 (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 Table B below.

Bisley                                                       1,507.32

Chobham                                                 1,922.82

Frimley and Camberley                        23,125.93

West End                                                 1,997.80

Windlesham                                            8,046.62

being the amounts calculated by the Council in accordance with regulation 6 of the Regulations, as the amount of its Council Tax base for the year for dwellings in those parts of its area to which special items relate;

2.               that the Council Tax requirement for the Council’s own purposes for 2015/16 (excluding parish precepts and special expenses) is £7,184,678;

3.               that the following amounts be calculated for the year 2015/16 in accordance with Sections 31 to 36 of the Act:

4.               To note that the County Council and the Police 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 as indicated in the table below.

Surrey County Council

Surrey Police and Crime Commissioner

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 tables below as the amounts of Council Tax for 2015/16 for each part of its area and for each of the categories of dwellings.

Parish precepts and special expenses

Surrey Heath Borough Council

Aggregate of Parish and Surrey Heath Borough Council

Total of all Precepts

6.           to note that the Council’s basic amount of Council Tax for 2015/16 is NOT excessive in accordance with the principles approved under Section 52ZB Local Government Finance Act 1992.

Note:  In accordance with the Local Authorities (Standing Orders) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2014, a recorded vote was taken.  The following Members voted in favour of the decision: Councillors David Allen, Rodney Bates, Richard Brooks, Keith Bush, Bill Chapman, Mrs Vivienne Chapman, Ian Cullen, Paul Deach, Tim Dodds, Colin Dougan, Craig Fennell, Liane Gibson, Moira Gibson, Beverley Harding, Edward Hawkins, Josephine Hawkins, Paul Ilnicki, Lexie Kemp, David Mansfield, Charlotte Morley, Adrian Page, Bob Paton, Ken Pedder, Chris Pitt, Joanne Potter, Wynne Price, Audrey Roxburgh, Ian Sams, Pat Tedder, Judi Trow, Valerie White and John Winterton. No Members voted against or abstained from voting.