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Revenues Service Monitoring Report

Meeting: 07/07/2016 - Executive, Resources and Contracts Policy Development and Scrutiny Committee (Item 332)

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Report FSD16043

 

Members considered the performance of Liberata’s Revenues Services for the six months to 31st March 2016. In particular, the in-year Council Tax collection rate for 2015/16 at 97.72% was 0.03% higher than achieved in the previous financial year and the sixth highest in London; the in-year collection rate for Business Rates, 2015/16 was 98.87%, an improvement of 0.07% on the previous year and the 11th highest in London.

 

Should other approaches fail to recover Council Tax or Business Rate arrears, the Chairman highlighted a sanction of securing a charge against a property and it was confirmed that the next monitoring report would outline the number of charges on property for Council Tax arrears.

 

An increasing level of debt was being collected. For static debt, the level remained below the threshold for a court summons in a number of cases - the debt needing to rise above the minimum level before taking court action. In recovering arrears and debt rescheduling, direct debit payment could form part of any repayment arrangement. 

 

Given a trend in recent years for some businesses to operate from residential property, the Portfolio Holder for Resources was asked if it would be possible to lobby Government on the matter in view of implications for local authority revenue.

 

RESOLVED that information contained within Report FSD16043 and Liberata’s appended letter be noted.