Purpose

To approve the Council Tax
Reduction Scheme 2024/25

Content

RESOLVED -

 

(i)          
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 be noted.

 

 

(ii)         
The Council
Tax Reduction Scheme and Prescribed Requirements (Wales) Regulations 2013, as
the Council’s Scheme for the Financial Year 2024/25, subject to the local
discretions that the Council is able to exercise as set out in paragraph 6.1 of
the report, be adopted.

 

(iii)       
The
Chief Officer Finance & ICT be given delegated authority  (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.

 

REASONS
FOR DECISION

 

(i)           
The Council is obliged to approve a Council Tax
Reduction Scheme for 2024/25 under the Prescribed Requirements Regulations by
31 January 2024.

 

(ii)          
It is likely that the uprating regulations for
Benefits, will not be debated by the Senedd until
January 2024.  As a result it will mean
that the amendment regulations will not be approved by the Assembly until late
January 2024.