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Unrecoverable Debt - CG/17/098

Meeting: 20/09/2017 - Finance, Policy and Resources Committee (Item 24)

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Please note that there is an exempt appendix in the Exempt/Confidential Business Section of the agenda

 

Additional documents:

Decision:

(i)         to note the value of Council Tax, Business Rates and Housing Benefit Overpayments deemed by the Head of Finance as unrecoverable and shown in Appendices 1 to 4;

(ii)        to approve the Business Rates debts in excess of £25,000 shown in Appendix 4 are unrecoverable and be written off; and

(iii)       to note that officers would include data in a future report in relation to repeat business addresses which have write offs.

Minutes:

With reference to article 13 of the minute of its meeting of 20 September 2016, the Committee had before it a report by the Head of Finance outlined Council Tax, Business Rates and Housing Benefit Overpayments made unrecoverable during 2016/7 as required in terms of Financial Regulations 5.3.4.

 

The report recommended:-

that the Committee -

(a)       note the value of Council Tax, Business Rates and Housing Benefit Overpayments deemed by the Head of Finance as unrecoverable and shown in Appendices 1 to 4 of the report; and

(b)       approve the Business Rates debts in excess of £25,000 shown in Appendix 4 are unrecoverable and be written off;

 

The Committee resolved:-

(i)         to approve the recommendations; and

(ii)        to note that officers would include data in a future report in relation to repeat business addresses which have write offs.