Issue - meetings

Accounts Submitted for Write-Off

Meeting: 11/09/2007 - Executive Member For Corporate Services and Advisory Panel (Item 23)

23 National Non-Domestic Rates/Sundry Debtors/Council Tax And Overpaid Housing Benefit Accounts Submitted For Write-Off PDF 53 KB

This report asks for Member approval to write-off irrecoverable accounts each one over £2,000 in value, for National Non-Domestic Rates (Annex A), Sundry Debtors (Annex B), Housing Benefit Overpayments (Annex C) and Council Tax (Annex D) as per the attached confidential Schedules.

Additional documents:

Accounts Submitted for Write Off - Annex A NNDR WRITE OFFS (OVER 2K) CONFIDENTIAL , View reasons restricted (23/2)
Accounts submitted for Write Off - Annex B Sundry Debts over 2k CONFIDENTIAL , View reasons restricted (23/3)
Accounts submitted for Write Off Annex C HB Overpayments over 2k CONFIDENTIAL , View reasons restricted (23/4)
Accounts submitted for Write Off Annex D C TAX WRITE OFFS (OVER 2K) CONFIDENTIAL , View reasons restricted (23/5)

Decision:

Advice of the Advisory Panel

That the Executive Member be advised to:

(i) approve for write-off the amount of £186,253 shown in para. 4, (the individual debts are listed in the attached annexes), taking note that each debt has a greater value than £2,000.

(ii) note the amount of £283,583 (shown in para. 4) of accounts valued at less than £2,000 written off in the 6 months to 10^th August 2007 under the Head of Finance’s delegated authority.

(iii) request officers not to name individuals in future public or private reports, subject to legal advice on Members interests.

Decision of the Executive Member

RESOLVED:That the advice of the Advisory Panel be accepted and endorsed.

REASONS:To allow prudent management of the Authorities debt portfolio;

To inform the Executive Member.

Minutes:

Members considered a report which asked for Member approval to write-off irrecoverable accounts each one over £2,000 in value, for National Non-Domestic Rates (Annex A), Sundry Debtors (Annex B), Housing Benefit Overpayments (Annex C) and Council Tax (Annex D) as per the attached confidential Schedules.

Members were presented with two options:

Option 1 - to approve for write-off the amount of £186,253 shown in para. 4 (the individual debts are listed in the attached confidential annexes.

Option 2 - not to approve the total write-off figure as shown in para. 4

Members requested that in future reports the personal details of individual debtors, excluding businesses, were not included.