Councillors will formally agree the figures on 14 February

The Band D figure for 2008/2009 would remain at �1,211.

It will be the second year running that there has been a freeze on the tax, but the council has promised that front line services will not be diminished.

The freeze, and the city council's budget for the coming financial year, will be formally agreed at a meeting on Thursday 14 February.

Council leader, Kevin Keenan, said: "Our council tax standstill for the last two consecutive years builds on experience over several previous years where our objective has been to keep any council tax increase to a minimum.

Annual savings

"Working with our administration partners over the last eight years, Dundee's council tax has increased by just 2.1% per annum compared to a national average of 4.4%, the second lowest increase in Scotland.

"During this period we also managed a 1% reduction in the council tax for the 2001/2002 financial year.

"By delivering annual efficiency savings we have been able to sustain this strategy without compromising essential services."

The provisional revenue budget for 2008/09 outlines spending plans totalling �334m.

The council promises that services will be maintained

Joe Morrow, senior councillor with responsibility for finance, said the budget had been able to plan for a number of "service developments" for the next financial year.

He explained: "These include an extra �118,000 for breakfast clubs and after school clubs for young people in the city that will help maintain our continued improvement in educational attainment.

"We are also planning a raft of major new capital projects for the city that will include a �22m replacement for the Olympia swim and leisure centre and the construction of a new �15m Kingspark school to support young people with special educational needs."

Councillor Morrow added that �7.4m would got to developing a new cemetery and there would be an extra �1m investment for repairing and improving the city's roads in each of the next three years.

He said: "The capital plan is both ambitious and affordable. It will be financed through a mixture of capital grants from the Scottish Government, receipts from the sale of council land and buildings and contributions from partner organisations."