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Revenues Collection Performance and Write-Offs

Meeting: 14/03/2023 - Cabinet (Item 455)

455 Revenues collection performance and write-offs (Report number: CAB/WS/23/015) pdf icon PDF 133 KB

Report number:     CAB/WS/23/015

Portfolio holder: Councillor Sarah Broughton

Lead officer: Rachael Mann

Decision:

Resolved:

That the write-off of the amounts detailed in the exempt appendices to Report number: CAB/WS/23/015, be approved, as follows:

                  

1.       Exempt Appendix 1: Council Tax totalling £14,079.44

2.       Exempt Appendix 2: NNDR totalling £87,969.26

 

Minutes:

The Cabinet considered this report, which provided the collection data in respect of Council Tax and National Non-Domestic Rates (NNDR) and sought approval for the write-off of the amounts contained in the exempt appendices attached to the report.

 

Councillor Sarah Broughton, Portfolio Holder for Resources and Property, drew relevant issues to the attention of the Cabinet, including the current performance of both council tax and business rates collection, as set out in Section 2 of the report.

 

Members noted that there was an extensive and supportive recovery process prior to the engagement of an enforcement agency. The Council currently used the services of the ARP Enforcement Agency to assist in the collection of business rates and council tax and also had online tracing facilities. Every effort was made to recover a debt before reaching the point of seeking approval to write it off. In the event that a written-off debt became recoverable, the amount was written back on, and enforcement procedures would be re-established.

 

Resolved:

 

That the write-off of the amounts detailed in the exempt appendices to Report number: CAB/WS/23/015, be approved, as follows:

                  

1.       Exempt Appendix 1: Council Tax totalling £14,079.44

2.       Exempt Appendix 2: NNDR totalling £87,969.26


 

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