Issue - meetings

Please note that there is an exempt and confidential appendix contained within the Exempt/Confidential section of this agenda.

(i)        to note the value of Council Tax, Non-Domestic Rates and Housing Benefit Overpayments deemed by the Chief Officer - Finance and Chief Officer – Customer Experience and Council house rent deemed by the Chief Officer – Early Intervention and Community Empowerment as unrecoverable and shown in Appendices 1, 2, 3 and 5; and  

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

The Committee had before it a report by the Director of Customer Services which provided details of the numbers and values of Council Tax, Non-Domestic Rates, Housing Benefit Overpayments and Council house rent debts made unrecoverable during 2018/19 as required in terms of Financial Regulations and approve Non-Domestic Rates write offs in excess of £25,000.

The report recommended:-

that the Committee –

(a)       note the value of Council Tax, Non-Domestic Rates and Housing Benefit Overpayments deemed by the Chief Officer - Finance and Chief Officer – Customer Experience and Council house rent deemed by the Chief Officer – Early Intervention and Community Empowerment as unrecoverable and shown in Appendices 1, 2, 3 and 5 of the report; and 

(b)       approve the Non-Domestic Rates debts in excess of £25,000 shown in Appendix 4 are unrecoverable and be written off.

The Committee resolved:-

to approve the recommendations.