Agenda item

To approve the Council Tax resolution and set the Council Tax for 2019/2020.

Council considered the Council Tax resolution for 2019/20.

1.       That at a meeting of the Cabinet on the 28^th November 2018, the Council calculated the following Tax Base amounts for the year 2019/20 in accordance with Regulations made under Section 33 (5) of the Local Government Finance Act, 1992.

(a)      Being the amount calculated by the Council, in accordance with the Local Authorities (Calculation of Council Tax Base) (Wales) Regulations 1995, as amended, as its Council Tax Base for the year 2019/2020.

          (b)      Part of the Council's area community of:

Community of:

              being the amounts calculated by the Council in accordance with

              the Regulations, as the amounts of its Council Tax Base for the year

              2019/2020 for dwellings in those parts of its area to which one or  

              More special items relate. Appendix One confirms the 2019/20 

              precept and band D charge for each Town and Community Council.

2. THE CALCULATION

2.1.    THAT the following amounts be now calculated by the Council for the year 2019/2020 in accordance with Sections 32 to 36 of the Local Government Finance Act, 1992:

a)    £440,547,237               being the aggregate of the amounts                                                          which the Council estimates for the items                                              set out in Section 32 (2) (a) to (e) of the Act                                                        

b)     £181,592,759              being the aggregate of the amounts which                                 the Council estimates for the items set                                            out in Section 32 (3) (a) to (c) of the Act

          c)  £258,954,478                being the amount by which the aggregate                                                 at 2.1(a) above exceeds the aggregate at                                                 2.1(b) above, calculated by the Council, in                                                 accordance with Section 32 (4) of the                                                       Act, as its budget requirement for the year

d)  £174,163,105               being the aggregate of the sums which the                                               Council estimates will be payable for the year

                                                  into its General Fund in respect of re-                                             distributed Non Domestic Rates, Revenue      

                                                      Support Grant, special grant or additional  

                                                      Grant.                                                                                                               

e)  £1,364:88                      being the amount at 2.1(c) above less the                                       amount at 2.1(d) above, all divided by the                                       amount at 1.3(a) above, calculated by the                                  Council, in accordance with Section 33                                           (1) of the Act, as the basic amount of its

                                                  Council Tax for the year

f)  £3,895,799                     being the aggregate amount of all special

                                                  items referred to in Section 34 (1) of the Act

          g) £1,302:17                     being the amount at 2.1(e) above less the                                      result given by dividing the amount at                                             2.1(f) above by the amount at 1.3(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 special item relates.   

h)      

          being the amounts given by adding to the amount at 2.1(g) above the amounts of the special item or items relating to dwellings in those parts of the Council's area mentioned above divided in each case by the amount at 1.3(b) above, calculated by the Council, in accordance with Section 34 (3) of the Act, as the basic amounts of its Council Tax for the year for dwellings in those parts of its area to which one or more special items relate

          (i)       Part of the Council's area

                    being the amounts given by multiplying the amounts at 2(h) above by the number which, in the proportion set out in Section 5 (1) of the Act, is applicable to dwellings listed in a particular Valuation Band divided by the number which in that proportion is applicable to dwellings listed in Valuation Band D, calculated by the Council, in accordance with Section 36 (1) of the Act, as the amounts to be taken into account for the year in respect of categories of dwellings listed in different Valuation Bands.

2.2.    THAT it be noted for the year 2019/2020 the Police and Crime Commissioner for Dyfed-Powys Police has stated the following amounts in precepts issued to the Council, in accordance with Section 40 of the Local Government Finance Act, 1992, for each of the categories of dwellings shown below:

                                                   Valuation Bands

2.3.    THAT, having calculated the aggregate in each case of the amounts at 2.1(i) and

          2.2 above, the Council in accordance with Section 30 (2) of the Local Government Finance Act, 1992, hereby sets the following amounts as the amounts of Council Tax for the year 2019/2020 for each of the categories of dwellings shown below.

The recommendations were moved by the Portfolio Holder for Finance, Countryside and Transport and seconded by the Leader and by 28 votes to 20 with 1 abstention it was