Issue - meetings

To consider the Local Council Tax Support Scheme proposals for 2020/21.

RESOLVED to recommended to approve the following draft proposals to inform the

Local Council Tax Scheme consultation for 2020/21:

I.              The 2020/21 LCTS scheme is set on the same basis as the 2019/20 scheme and therefore the contribution rate is frozen for the fifth consecutive year.

II.            The Council continues to protect Vulnerable and Disabled Residents and Carer’s on a low income.

Councillor Fairhurst presented the report summarising the background to the Local Council Tax Support (LCTS) Scheme, as well as proposals for 2020/21. He said the Council’s LCTS scheme would continue to protect the vulnerable and elderly in the district, and added that the council had the lowest percentage contribution rate within Essex.

RESOLVED to approve the following draft proposals to inform the Local Council Tax Scheme consultation for 2020/21:

I.      The 2020/21 LCTS scheme is set on the same basis as the 2019/20 scheme and therefore the contribution rate is frozen for the fifth consecutive year.

II.    The Council continues to protect Vulnerable and Disabled Residents and Carer’s on a low income.