Unclaimed business rate credit write on balances - Freedom of information requests

Title or Description: Unclaimed business rate credit write on balances
FOI Number: 579
Date Received: 09/06/2022
Type of Request: FOI
Request or Question: Unclaimed business rate credit write on balances. We are aware of the fact that 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 any write on balances accrued since your earliest records, for the amounts owing to all incorporated companies within your authority's billing area, including the following information:A. The legal name of each business in respect of which Non-Domestic rate credit balances remain payable
B. The value of overpayment in each case which remains unclaimed
C. The years(s) in which overpayment was made
D. The hereditament address
E. The legal name of each business in respect of which Non-Domestic rate credit balances have been written back on to the NDR account
F. The value of write back in each case which remains unclaimed
G. The years(s) in which the write back was made (if available)
H. The hereditament address that the write back relates to
Response: I can advise that all credit balances are reviewed on a monthly basis and have either been refunded or are being investigated.
Unfortunately our system does not allow us to separate between credit balances written back on to the system and other manual adjustments therefore the information you require is not held. As we do not hold this information it is therefore exempt under Section 17 of FOISA.