Council Tax Re-billing
The Council was asked last night to agree to re-issue all council tax bills for the year at a cost of £50,000. This was to comply with the government instruction to the Fire Authority who are being capped. The amount due to be returned to taxpayers in this District was £110,000 (or £3 per household estimated by one member). Leaving aside the principle of capping, it seems a complete squandering of taxpayers money to spend £50,000 to return £110,000.
I could not bring myself to support this and have proposed that the Council temporarily increases its own tax by the same amount to avoid re-billing and then pays back the £110,000 to taxpayers in next year's demand.
This way we have to wait six months to receive our £3 but will save £50,000. The meeting agreed to defer a decision to allow officers to look at the idea in more detail.
The Council was asked last night to agree to re-issue all council tax bills for the year at a cost of £50,000. This was to comply with the government instruction to the Fire Authority who are being capped. The amount due to be returned to taxpayers in this District was £110,000 (or £3 per household estimated by one member). Leaving aside the principle of capping, it seems a complete squandering of taxpayers money to spend £50,000 to return £110,000.
I could not bring myself to support this and have proposed that the Council temporarily increases its own tax by the same amount to avoid re-billing and then pays back the £110,000 to taxpayers in next year's demand.
This way we have to wait six months to receive our £3 but will save £50,000. The meeting agreed to defer a decision to allow officers to look at the idea in more detail.
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