PAPER D

RECOMMENDATION FROM FINANCE COMMITTEE MEETING HELD

ON 18^TH JANUARY 2022.

COUNCIL TAX & PRECEPT

To recommend to full council

1. That the budget as presented be approved subject to an increase of £19,000

in the community grants budget.

2. That the precept sum of £1,258,270 be approved (representing an increase of

4% based on the tax base for the 2021-22 financial year).

UPDATE - FOLLOWING INFORMATION RECEIVED AFTER THE FINANCE

MEETING ON THE 18^TH JANUARY 2022

NOTES:

1. The 2021-22 tax base was 8087.4.

2. The tax base for 2022-23 was advised as being 8205.7 on Wednesday 19^th

January.

3. The tax base has therefore increased by

118.3 Band D equivalent

properties.

4. The impact of the increase in tax base is that the above recommended

precept of

£1,258,270 represents a 2.5% increase from the current years Band D Tax

and an increase in Band D of £3.78 per annum (from £149.56 to £153.34).

Gareth Hughes

RFO

20^th January 2022.