Issue - meetings

2019/20 Budget overview and tax base setting

Meeting: 05/12/2018 - Lewes District Council Cabinet (Item 48)

48 Council tax base and non-domestic rates income for 2019/20 pdf icon PDF 89 KB

Report of Chief Finance Officer

Lead Cabinet member: Councillor Bill Giles

Additional documents:

Decision:

(Key decision):

 

(1) To agree the provisional council tax base of 36,760.40 for 2019/20 for the whole area and that the council tax base for each of the Town and Parish areas of the District shall be as set out at appendix 2 of the report

 

(2) To agree that the Chief Finance Officer, in consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Finance, determine the final amounts for the council tax base for 2019/20.

 

(3) To agree that the Chief Finance Officer, in consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Finance, determine net yield from Business Rate income for 2019/20.

Minutes:

The Cabinet considered the report of the Chief Finance Officer, seeking approval to approve the council tax base and net yield from business rate income for 2019/20, in accordance with the Local Government Finance Act 1992.

 

Resolved (Key decision):

 

(1) To agree the provisional council tax base of 36,760.40 for 2019/20 for the whole area and that the council tax base for each of the Town and Parish areas of the District shall be as set out at appendix 2 of the report

 

(2) To agree that the Chief Finance Officer, in consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Finance, determine the final amounts for the council tax base for 2019/20.

 

(3) To agree that the Chief Finance Officer, in consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Finance, determine net yield from Business Rate income for 2019/20.

 

Reason for decisions:

 

Cabinet is required to approve the Tax Base which will be used for the purposes of calculating the 2019/20 Council Tax.