Issue - meetings
Write off of irrecoverable Business Rates, Housing Benefit Overpayments and Sundry Debts with balances over £10,000
Meeting: 06/12/2017 - Audit and Governance Committee (Item 34)
PDF 100 KBReport of the Head of Corporate Resources
Additional documents:
- Enc. 1 for Write off of irrecoverable Business Rates, Housing Benefit Overpayments and Sundry Debts with balances over £10,000 , View reasons restricted (34/2)
Minutes:
The Committee considered the report of the Head of Corporate Resources on the Revenue Service’s write-off of irrecoverable Business Rates, Housing Benefits Overpayments and Sundry Debts with balances over £10,000 as indicated in Appendices 1, 2 and 3 of the report.
The Council’s Partnership and Local Taxation Manager and the Revenues Manager (arvato), presented the report and answered questions thereon.
RESOLVED: That
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the write-off of debts totalling £248,311.48, as detailed in Appendices 1, 2 and 3 to the report, be approved; and
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the Revenues Team be commended for their excellent Council and Business Rates collection rates. Business Rates collection fell in the upper quartile percentage of collection success rates by metropolitan authorities nationally. |