Agenda item

To consider the Council Tax Resolution for 2013/14, as set out in the attached report.

On being put to the vote, the motion was declared CARRIED and it was

RESOLVED:       (i)      That it be noted that on 13 December                                  2012 the Director of Customer and

Business Support Services, under his delegated authority, calculated the Council Tax Base for the year 2013/14:

(a)   for the whole Council area as

  60,945.49 [Item T in the formula in

  Section 31B of the Local

  Government Finance Act 1992, as

  amended (the “Act”)]; and

(b)   for those dwellings in those parts of

       its area to which a Parish precept

       relates as in column 1 in the

       attached Schedule A.

(ii)          Calculate that the Council Tax requirement for the Council’s own purposes for 2013/14 (excluding Parish precepts) is £69,710,060.

(iii)        That the following amounts be calculated for the year 2013/14 in accordance with Sections 31 to 36 of the Act:

(a)     £362,263,050.00 being the aggregate of the amounts which the Council estimates for the items set out in Section 31A(2) of the Act taking into account all precepts issued to it by Parish Councils.

                                             (b)       £291,931,312.00          being the

aggregate of the amounts which the Council estimates for the items set out in Section 31A(3) of the Act.

(c)         £70,331,738.00 being the

        amount by which the aggregate

        at 14(a) above exceeds the

        aggregate at 14(b) above,

        calculated by the Council in

        accordance with Section 31A(4)

        of the Act as its Council Tax

        requirement for the year. [Item R

        in the formula in Section 31B of

        the Act].

(d)        £1,154.01being the amount at

       14(c) above [Item R], all divided

       by Item T (12(a) above),

       calculated by the Council, in

       accordance with Section 31B of

       the Act, as the basic amount of

       its Council Tax for the year

       (including Parish precepts).

(e)        £621,678.00 being the aggregate

       amount of all special items

       (Parish precepts) referred to in

       Section 34(1) of the Act (as per

       the attached Schedule A).

(f)          £1,143.81  being the amount at

14(d) above less the result given by dividing the amount at 14(e) above by Item T (12(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 Parish precept relates.

(iv)        That it be noted that North Yorkshire Police and the North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Authority have issued precepts to the Council in accordance with Section 40 of the Act for each category of dwellings in the Council’s area as indicated in the tables at 16 below.

(v)         That the Council, in accordance with sections 30 and 36 of the Act, hereby sets the aggregate amounts shown in the tables below, and at Schedule B for Parished areas, as the amounts of Council Tax for 2013/14 for each part of its area and for each of the categories of dwellings.

City of York Council

North Yorkshire Police

North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Authority

Aggregate of Council Tax Requirements (excluding Parished Areas)

(ii)          Determine that the Council’s basic amount of Council Tax for 2013/14, which reflects a 1.9% increase, is not excessive in accordance with the principles approved under section 52ZB of the Act.