Purpose

To approve the Council Tax
Reduction Scheme 2026/27

Content

RESOLVED – That Council

 

(i)         Note the making of the Council Tax
Reduction Scheme and Prescribed Requirements (Wales) Regulations ("the
Prescribed Requirements Regulations") by the Welsh Assembly on 27 November
2013;

 

(ii)        Adopt
The Council Tax Reduction Scheme and Prescribed Requirements (Wales)
Regulations 2013, as the Council’s Scheme for the Financial Year 2026/27,
subject to the local discretions that the Council is able to exercise as set
out in paragraph 8.1 of the report; and

 

(iii)       Approve
delegation to the Chief Officer Finance & ICT (in consultation with the
Leader) to consider, approve and/or deal with as necessary any amendments which
may be made to the “Amendment regulations” following consideration by the
National Assembly for Wales when these regulations are laid & approved by
Welsh Government.

 

Reason
for decision

 

(i)          
The
Council is obliged to approve a Council Tax Reduction Scheme for 2026/27 under
the Prescribed Requirements Regulations by 31 January 2025.

 

(ii)             
It is
likely that the uprating regulations for Benefits, will not be debated by the Senedd until January 2026. 
As a result it will mean that the amendment regulations will not be
approved by the Assembly until late January 2026.