Issue - meetings

Report of the Director of Finance

The Cabinet considered a report of the Director of Finance that sought to establish the 2022/23 Council Tax base for tax setting purposes.

The Council Tax base was the measure of the taxable capacity of an area, for the purpose of calculating an authority's Council Tax. It represented the estimated number of Band D equivalent chargeable dwellings for the year. It also took into account the authority's estimated Council Tax collection rate.

The report did not set the actual level of Council Tax in Coventry; that would be set by Council at their meeting on the 22nd February 2022.

Appendices to the report provided: the Tax Base Calculation for 2022/23 Tax Setting (Coventry); the Tax Base Calculation for 2022/23 Tax Setting (Allesley);  the Tax Base Calculation for 2022/23 Tax Setting (Finham); the Tax Base Calculation for 2022/23 Tax Setting (Keresley); and Grant payments to parish councils.

RESOLVED that the Cabinet:

1)  Approves that the Council Tax collection rate for 2022/23 be set at 97.9%.

2)  Agrees that, in accordance with the Local Authorities (Calculation of Tax Base) Regulations 2012, the amounts calculated by the City Council for 2022/23 shall be:

  a net tax base of 84,264.3 for the whole of the City Council area made up as follows:

3)  Agrees that the following grant payments should be made to parish councils to reflect the impact in 2022/23 of Council Tax reductions on their tax bases.