Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Executive Councillor (Finance)

This report deals with setting the Council Tax Base for the whole of the Council for 2012/13. The report also sets out proposed technical reforms of the Council Tax system which are currently the subject of a consultation which closes on 29 December 2011. The reforms, should they be implemented, would impact on Tax Base from 2013/14 onwards. A Council Tax Base of 99,771.73 is recommended and the calculation and assumptions are set out in the report.

The Executive is recommended to:

•           Approve the Council Tax Base for 2012/13 at a Band D equivalent figure of 99,771.73.

•           Note the work being carried out on the consultation and approve that the Executive Councillor Finance agree the response to be submitted.

Officer contact: Lesley Pearson 0161 474 5145, lesley.pearson@stockport.gov.uk

The Executive Councillor (Finance) submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) inviting the Executive Meeting to set the Council Tax base for 2012/13. The report also set out proposed technical reforms of the Council Tax system, currently subject to consultation by the Department for Communities and Local Government until 29 December 2011.

RESOLVED – (1) That based on the calculations and assumptions set out in the report the Stockport Council Tax Base for 2012/13 be set at a Band D equivalent figure of 99,771.73.

(2) That the work being carried out on the technical reforms consultation be noted and the Executive Councillor (Finance) be authorised to agree the response to be submitted to the Department for Communities and Local Government on Council Tax Reform.