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Review of Discretionary Rate Relief
Published: 14/01/2016
天涯社区鈥檚 Cabinet will consider a report recommending a
review of the Discretionary Rate Relief (DRR) scheme at a meeting on Tuesday,
19 January.
The DRR provides assistance to organisations that are registered charities and
voluntary and non-profit organisations not registered with the Charity
Commission. Although the DRR scheme is approved annually by Cabinet, the
principles of which organisation gets rate relief and at what level, has not
been reviewed since 2010. No changes to the scheme are proposed for 2016/17 as
this is a longer-term review.
The current scheme provides DRR to 213 organisation totalling 拢273,131 with the
Council meeting annual costs of 拢103,000 and the Welsh Government 拢170,131.
Cllr. Aaron Shotton, Leader of the Council said,
鈥淭here is a growing need to carry out a full review of DRR awards which could
potentially provide efficiencies for the Council that would help bridge the
budget gap from 2017-18 and beyond. The opportunity to review will also help us
to consider an alternative scheme that could be implemented from April 2017.