123 Adoption of The Council Tax Reduction Scheme. PDF 147 KB
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Minutes:
The Section 151 Officer submitted a report, which explained the
requirement to annually consider whether to revise or replace the Council’s
existing Council Tax Reduction Scheme and the requirement to either adopt a new
scheme or re-adopt the existing scheme by 31 January 2019.
Resolved that:
1)
The Council Tax Reduction Schemes and Prescribed Requirements (Wales)
Regulations 2013 (“the Prescribed Requirements Regulations”) by the National
Assembly for Wales (NAfW) on 26 November 2013, as
amended be noted;
2)
The amendments to “the Prescribed Requirements Regulations” contained in
the Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Prescribed Requirements and Default Scheme)
(Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2018, considered and approved by NAfW on 8 January 2019 be noted;
3)
The outcome of the consultation exercise undertaken by the Council in
November 2018 on the discretionary areas of the current scheme be noted;
4)
The current scheme (2018/2019) in relation to the discretionary areas
(as set out in section 3 of the report) remain unchanged from 2019/2020;
5)
The scheme as set out in section 3 of the report be adopted and any
amendments to the regulations made by NAfW be
reflected in the scheme.
Note: Councillor P M Black asked the following question:
“Paragraph 5.2 of
the report states that the estimated shortfall
between funding and Council Tax Reduction paid to recipients is £1,270k. How does this compare to previous years?”
The Interim
Deputy Chief Finance Officer stated that a written response would be provided.