Issue - meetings
Taxbase Report
Meeting: 15/01/2020 - Cabinet (Item 115)
115 Council Tax – Tax Base 2020/21 
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This report calculates and presents the proposed Council Tax Base for council tax setting purposes in line with current legislation and guidance.
There is a requirement to maintain three separate Council Tax bases for Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch until the Council Tax Band D charge is harmonised for the new authority.
Additional documents:
Decision:
RECOMMENDED that:-
(a) the report for the calculation of the Council’s Tax Base for the year 2020/21 be approved and the tax base be recommended to Full Council;
(b) pursuant to the report, and in accordance with the Local Authorities (Calculation of Council Tax Base) Regulations 1992 as amended, the amount calculated as the Council Tax Base for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council is split for the year 2020/21 as Bournemouth 63,985, Christchurch 20,403 and Poole 58,609.
Voting: Unanimous
Portfolio Holder: Finance
Minutes:
The Portfolio Holder for Finance presented a report, a copy of which had been circulated to each Member and a copy of which appears as Appendix 'G' to these Minutes in the Minute Book.
In presenting the report the Portfolio Holder advised that the report calculated and presented the proposed Council Tax Base for council tax setting purposes in line with current legislation and guidance. Further to this Cabinet were advised that there was a requirement to maintain three separate Council Tax bases for Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch until the Council Tax Band D charge is harmonised for the new authority.
RECOMMENDED that:-
(a) the report for the calculation of the Council’s Tax Base for the year 2020/21 be approved and the tax base be recommended to Full Council;
(b) pursuant to the report, and in accordance with the Local Authorities (Calculation of Council Tax Base) Regulations 1992 as amended, the amount calculated as the Council Tax Base for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council is split for the year 2020/21 as Bournemouth 63,985, Christchurch 20,403 and Poole 58,609.
Voting: Unanimous
Portfolio Holder: Finance