FOI request (FOIR-457807128)

Council tax refunds

Requested Tue 11 October 2022
Responded  Tue 18 October 2022

Please can you provide me with the following information under the Freedom Of Information Act 2000:

All Council Tax accounts with a credit balance.

I am aware that all Billing Authorities hold on account, sums of money that are due to be returned to ratepayers and for a variety of reasons have not been repaid.

I therefore request a breakdown of credit balances accrued since your earliest records, for the amounts owing to all incorporated companies such as housing associations, property developers and so on within the authority's billing area, including the following information:

a. The name of each business in respect of which Council Tax credit balances remain payable. I understand you will not provide individuals' names. Please note I am not asking for Business Rates but that of council tax accounts held by housing associations, property developers and so on.

b, The value of overpayment in each case which remains unclaimed.

c, The years(s) in which overpayment is for.

d. The property address the credit relates to.

e. A write to address and write to company name if available.

f. Please state whether the account is a live/open account or a closed account. If closed the date it closed.

g. Please provide the most up to date and accurate information that you can, please confirm the date that the data was pulled from your system.

Response

Please see attached our response to your Freedom of Information request.

The data was extracted 11/10/2022.

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/council tax banding.

The figure in the 'outstanding debt' column is the credit amount.

We do not have a report with an option to pick up credits, so we have selected accounts with a debt with less than zero o pick up all accounts in credit.

Attachments

• FOIR-457807128_FOIR-457807128_1-FOI457807128_CTAX_Credits.xlsx