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Item from Cabinet minutes of 11 February 2021 – to follow

Due to the timescale and print deadline, the recommendations arising from the meeting of Cabinet will be circulated to Members in advance of the meeting of Council.

Item CB 21/21 referred from Cabinet minutes of 11 February 2021

Member’s attention was drawn to the supplementary report of the Director of Finance and Transformation which set out a scheme, funded by Kent County Council, to provide additional council tax support for low-income working age households and for working age households suffering financial hardship as a consequence of the Covid- 9 pandemic.

RESOLVED:  That

(1)          the recommendations at Minute CB 21/21 be approved;

(2)          the Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council Tax S13A (1) (c) Local Government Finance Act 1992 Policy, attached at Annex 1 to the supplementary report, be approved; and

(3)          authority be delegated to the Director of Finance and Transformation to finalise and implement the scheme, as set out within the supplementary report,  and any further changes as may be necessary during the year.

A report providing the link to view the Draft Tonbridge & Malling Borough Council Local Council Tax Reduction Scheme 2021/22, requesting Cabinet Members to approve and recommend the updated draft Scheme to Full Council.

Consideration was given to the Draft Local Council Tax Reduction Scheme 2021/22  which had been revised to bring it in line with statutory prescribed requirements, housing benefit and other national benefit rates and increased to income bands where uplifts to the Minimum Wage, a component of the income band level calculation, had been taken into account.

RECOMMENDED:  That the draft Local Council Tax Reduction Scheme 2021/22 be commended to the Council for adoption for adoption.

*Referred to Council