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Staffordshire Pilot for Business Rates Retention in 2019/20

Meeting: 06/09/2018 - Cabinet (Item 40)

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(Report of the Portfolio Holder for Assets and Finance)

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The Portfolio Holder for Assets and Finance updated members on the implications of the 75% Business Rates Retention pilots proposed for 2019/20 and sought approval to submit an Expression of Interest to pilot 75% Business Rates Retention in 2019/20.

 

 

RESOLVED

that the changes to the criteria to be a pilot in 2019/20 be noted; and

 

that authority to approve be delegated for the Executive Director Finance (Section 151 Officer), in consultation with the Leader of the Council and the Chief Executive, to agree, in conjunction with the other eleven authorities of the proposed pilot, the detail of the 2019/20 application; and

 

 

with an additional recommendation that authority be delegated to the Executive Director Finance (Section 151 Officer), in consultation with the Leader of the Council and the Chief Executive, to agree the final Governance arrangements and Expression of Interest for submission to MHCLG

 

(Moved by Councillor R Pritchard and seconded by Councillor M Thurgood). 

 

Councillor S Claymore requested, in accordance with Rule 4.17.5, that his vote against the motion be recorded.