Freedom of Information Request

Freedom of Information Request

Received: 13 January 2023

Freedom of Information Request:
For financial years 2019/20 2020/21 2021/22 provide the following:
1. How many Non Domestic rebills have you produced due changes in circumstances brought to your attention after the change? I am referring to Liability changes and removal of Small Business Rate Relief
2. How many Council Tax rebills have you produced due to changes in circumstances brought to your attention after the change? I am referring to Liability changes and removal of Single Person Discount
3. When did you last review Small Business Rate Relief?
4. When reviewed how many accounts had Small Business Rate Relief removed retrospectively?
5. Please provide a year by year breakdown of the number of accounts that had Small Business Rates Relief removed; ie how many were backdated to financial year 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16 etc
6. How many fraud prosecutions resulted from this exercise?
7. When did you last review Single Person Discounts?
8. When reviewed how many accounts had Single Person Discount removed retrospectively?
9. Please provide a year by year breakdown of the number of accounts that had Single Person Discount removed; ie how many were back dated to 1993/94, 1994/95, 1995/96 etc
10. How many Council Tax penalties did you issue as a result of this exercise? And how many for issued for others reasons not SPD
11. How many fraud prosecutions resulted from this exercise?
12. How many penalties did you issue for failure to return the review form?
13. How many appeals were submitted to the VT as a result of this?
14. Of the appeals submitted how many were upheld?
15. How many penalties were issued due to incorrect, withheld or changes being reported after the 21days on Council Tax Reduction
16. What % of risk has been identified when records have been compared to companies such as 'Destin solutions or Experian, this question is not narrow to the companies given as an example )

Outcome / Documents

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