Issue - meetings

Local Council Tax Support 2017/18 Scheme

Meeting: 26/11/2015 - Policy and Resources Committee (Item 47)

Local Council Tax Support 2016/17 Scheme

Supporting documents:

Minutes:

Considered – Report of the Finance Manager (s151).

 

Recommendation to Council

 

That Council be recommended to:

(i) a Local Council Tax Support Scheme for 2016/17 to include a minimum payment of 8.5%, and with the charges proposed to limit the backdating of claims to one month instead of six months and to remove the family premium from 1 May 2016.

 

(ii) to authorise the Finance Manager in consultation with the Chairman of Policy and Resources Committee to undertake the necessary consultation work to design a scheme for 2017/18, in light of the experience in previous years, to be presented to Policy and Resources Committee in December 2016.

 

Voting record

7 for

0 against

1 abstention