Agenda item

To consider the Council Tax Resolution for 2019/20, as set out in the attached report.

Finally, and in light of the setting of the budget for 2019/20 under minute no. 58 above, Councillor Gillies moved and Councillor Waller seconded the Council Tax resolution for 2019/20.

The required named vote, in accordance with legal regulations, was then taken on the Council Tax recommendation with the following results:

The motion was declared CARRIED and it was:

Resolved: 

(i)      That it be noted that on 26 November 2018 the Deputy Chief Executive/Director of Customer and Corporate Services, under his delegated authority, calculated the council tax base for the year 2019/20:

(a)     for the whole Council area as 67,706.1 [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 2019/20 (excluding Parish precepts) is £90,066,040

(iii)     That the following amounts be calculated for the year 2019/20 in accordance with Sections 31 to 36 of the Act:

(a)     £400,468,192 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)     £309,650,190 being the aggregate of the amounts which the Council estimates for the items set out in Section 31A(3) of the Act.

(c)     £90,818,002 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)     £1,341.36 being 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)     £751,962 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)      £1,330.25 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)    To note that North Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner 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 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 2019/20 for each part of its area and for each of the categories of dwellings.

City of York Council

North Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner

North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Authority

Aggregate of Council Tax Requirements (excluding Parished Areas)

(vi)    Determine that the Council’s basic amount of council tax for 2019/20 is not excessive in accordance with the principles approved under section 52ZB of the Act. As the billing authority, the Council has not been notified by a major precepting authority that its relevant basic amount of council tax for 2019/20 is excessive and that the billing authority is not required to hold a referendum in accordance with Section 52ZK Local Government Finance Act 1992.