Issue - meetings

Due to the timescale and print deadlines, the recommendations of the meeting of Cabinet held on 10 February 2022 will be circulated to Members in advance of the meeting of Council.

Item CB 22/19 referred from Cabinet minutes of 10 February 2022.

Member’s attention was drawn to the supplementary report of the Director of Finance and Transformation which presented a revised Tonbridge & Malling Borough Council Working Age Local Council Tax Reduction Scheme 2022/23 to incorporate a disregard for the recently announced national Energy Rebate Scheme 2022.

RESOLVED:  That the draft Local Council Tax Reduction Scheme 2022/23, as updated for the Energy Rebate Scheme be approved.

A report providing the proposed Tonbridge & Malling Borough Council Working Age Local Council Tax Reduction Scheme 2022/23, requesting Cabinet Members to approve and recommend the updated Scheme to Full Council.

Due to its size Annex 1 (the Draft Local Council Tax Reduction Scheme 2022/23) has been published as a supplement to the main agenda.

Consideration was given to the Draft Local Council Tax Reduction Scheme 2022/23 (attached as a supplement to the main agenda) which had been revised to bring it in line with statutory prescribed requirements, housing benefit and other national benefit rates and increases to income bands where uplifts to the Minimum Wage, a component of the income band level calculation, had been taken into account.

The Scheme applied to working age households and maximum help remained capped at 80% of council tax liability.  For pension age households the Government Scheme prescribed maximum help up to 100% of council tax liability, a minimum requirement of a pension age scheme.

RECOMMENDED:  That the draft Local Council Tax Reduction Scheme 2022/23 be commended to the Council for adoption.

*Referred to Council