Issue - meetings

Discretionary Rate Relief Policy

Meeting: 25/01/2007 - Council (Item 9)

Discretionary Rate Relief other than for Charitable Organisations (Cabinet, 11 January 2007)

Cabinet RECOMMENDED TO COUNCIL that the policy for the award of discretionary rate relief set out in the appendices to the Cabinet report be adopted in order to facilitate future awards of relief from the financial year 2007/08 onwards. 

Decision:

Council RESOLVED that the policy for the award of discretionary rate relief set out in the appendices to the Cabinet report be adopted in order to facilitate future awards of relief from the financial year 2007/08 onwards.

Minutes:

Council RESOLVED that the policy for the award of discretionary rate relief set out in the appendices to the Cabinet report be adopted in order to facilitate future awards of relief from the financial year 2007/08 onwards.


Meeting: 17/01/2007 - Weekly Bulletin (Item 6c)

Discretionary Rate Relief


Meeting: 11/01/2007 - Cabinet (Item 3)

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Decision:

Cabinet RECOMMENDED TO COUNCIL that the policy for the award of discretionary rate relief set out in the appendices to the Cabinet report be adopted in order to facilitate future awards of relief from the financial year 2007/08 onwards. 

Minutes:

Relief traditionally had been awarded to qualifying local organisations and small businesses which relied on financial assistance to remain viable and the proposed policy would formalise existing practice for the award of discretionary rate relief other than for charitable organisations.  All applications would be considered on their individual merits and a degree of flexibility would be retained to award relief in exceptional circumstances where an application was considered to be particularly deserving but fell outside the scope of the policy.  The Chief Executive clarified that village halls run as charities could apply for relief in accordance with the policy adopted by Cabinet in December 2005 on discretionary rate relief for charitable organisations, whilst those with other management arrangements could be considered under this proposed policy.

 

Cabinet RECOMMENDED TO COUNCIL that the policy for the award of discretionary rate relief set out in the appendices to the Cabinet report be adopted in order to facilitate future awards of relief from the financial year 2007/08 onwards.


Meeting: 08/12/2005 - Cabinet (Item 9)

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Decision:

Cabinet AGREED that

(a)               the criteria described in Appendix A to the report “Policy for the Award of ‘Top-up’ Discretionary Rate Relief to Charitable Organisations” as amended at the meeting be adopted formally as a policy for the award of ‘top-up’ rate relief with effect from 1st April 2006;

(b)               in order to minimise the administrative burden on both the Council and applicants, this policy only take effect where the award of relief to the organisation would cost the Council in excess of £1,000 per annum;

(c)               authority to make decisions on awards within the criteria set out in the policy be delegated to the Finance and Resources Director;

(d)               authority to make decision on appeals against the decision of the Finance and Resources Director be delegated to the Resources and Staffing Portfolio Holder; and

(e)               a further report making recommendations for a policy to cover all other forms of discretionary relief be submitted to Cabinet during the 2006/07 financial year.

Minutes:

Council, at its meeting of 27 October 2005, had agreed that a policy on discretionary rate relief had to be adopted formally in order to implement the reduction in expenditure agreed.  A formal policy would ensure that future awards of rate relief were allocated in a manner which maximised the benefit to local residents and assisted those organisations which contributed to the Council’s Corporate Objectives.

 

Cabinet AGREED that

(a)               The criteria described in Appendix A to the report “Policy for the Award of ‘Top-up’ Discretionary Rate Relief to Charitable Organisations” as amended at the meeting be adopted formally as a policy for the award of ‘top-up’ rate relief with effect from 1st April 2006;

(b)               In order to minimise the administrative burden on both the Council and applicants, this policy only take effect where the award of relief to the organisation would cost the Council in excess of £1,000 per annum;

(c)               Authority to make decisions on awards within the criteria set out in the policy be delegated to the Finance and Resources Director;

(d)               Authority to make decision on appeals against the decision of the Finance and Resources Director be delegated to the Resources and Staffing Portfolio Holder; and

(e)               A further report making recommendations for a policy to cover all other forms of discretionary relief be submitted to Cabinet during the 2006/07 financial year.