9 November 2022
Your request
- please could you tell me the amount of money written off in unpaid business rates in the following financial years:2021/22
2020/21
2019/20
2018/19
2017/18
Our response
- write-offs are only undertaken in certain situations that meet the council’s policy e.g., if a limited company has been liquidated, all tracing methods to locate the debtor have been exhausted.
2017/18 - £720,692.84
2018/19 - £827,786.51
2019/20 - £911,734.08
2020/21 - £504,145.68
2021/22 - £401,244.42