FOI request (FOIR-520893565)

Council Tax Refunds

Requested Fri 02 June 2023
Responded Thu 22 June 2023

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 accounts 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 within the authorities billing area, including the following information:

1. 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.

2. The value of the overpayment in each case which remains unclaimed.

3. The years(s) in which overpayment is for.

4. The property address the credit relates to.

5. A write to address and write to name if available.

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

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.

Please note that I am requesting information of companies that hold residential properties, for example, housing associations and develops.

Response

Please see attached our response to your Freedom of Information request, the data was extracted on the 5th June 2023.

Please note that 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 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 to select accounts with a debt debt less than zero to pick up all accounts in credit.

Attachments

• FOIR-520893565_FOIR-520893565_1-FOI520893565_CTAX_Credits.xlsx