FOI request (FOIR-390043115)

Business Property Rates data

Requested Tue 04 January 2022
Responded  Thu 13 January 2022

Under the Freedom of Information Act of 2000, could you please provide me with the most up-to-date list of all business (non-residential) property rates data for your local authority that currently hold a credit on their account, and including the following fields:

a. Addresses of all commercial properties,

b. The names and addresses of the ratepayer of the property referred to in (a) if they are NOT a sole trader or individual,

c. The amount by which the account is in credit,

d. The rating year that the credit arose, and

e. The reason for the credit occurring.

Could you also please confirm the date that the data was generated from your system.

I appreciate that properties owned/rented by individuals are personal information and such personal data (such as the Firm's Trading Name) would be excluded from my request in terms of Section 40(2) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. In such cases, please provide the remaining information with the Firm's Trading Name either blank or listed as 'individual'.

Please provide this as machine-readable as either a CSV or Microsoft Excel file.

Response

Please see attached our response to your Freedom of Information request. The list of credits was run 7th January 2022. We cannot specify what each refund is for but it would be as a result of one of the following:

- Relief/Exemption granted

- Closed Account

- Rateable Value Reduction

- Overpayment

Please note the Property Reference number relates to the property, not the account number for the customer. This reference is available on the internet, for example the gov.uk website regarding a property's rateable value. The figure in the column that says 'outstanding debt' is the credit amount. We don't have a report with an option to pick up credits, so we have to put in debt with less than zero to pick up all accounts in credit.

Attachments

• FOIR-390043115_FOIR-390043115_1-FOI_390043115_-_NDR_Credits.xlsx