The Director of Finance presented a report which detailed the method used to calculate the Tax Base for the 2009/2010 Council Tax and recommended a figure for tax setting purposes.

Resolved – That the Council be recommended that:

(1)  the Council Tax Base for 2009/10 be approved; and

(2)  in accordance with the Local Authorities (Calculation of Tax Base) Regulations 1992, the figure calculated by this Authority as its Tax Base for the year 2000/2010 shall be 104,276.