Business Rates - April
Dear Spelthorne Borough Council,
REQUEST FOR INFORMATION UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000.
In accordance with the provisions specified within the above Act I hereby request the following information.
All information requested relates to Business Rates.
This request for information falls within the parameters of the Act but if you require clarification on any of the points above or should you wish to discuss this further then please do not hesitate to contact me.
Required Information;- A list of all live business rates accounts with a 2017 list Rateable Value.
• Property Reference Number (also known as Billing Authority Reference Number) of the property on which the charge is made. Please note that this is not the Rate Demand or Rate Account Number.
• Current rateable value
• Account holder name
• Property address
• The billing address (where different to the property address), the contact telephone number and email address
• The date the current ratepayer became liable for the business rates – we do not require any historical account liability dates only the current ratepayers liability start date
• whether a property is empty or occupied
• Where a property is currently empty please provide the date the ratepayer became liable for empty rates
• Where there is an exemption on the account please provide the start and end date and type of exemption applied (e.g. listed building)
• Where there is a relief on the account please provide the date it was applied and the type of relief (e.g. Retail Discount)
• We do not require any personal information or sole traders.
Please provide the information in an electronic, spreadsheet format ideally excel. The Act requires that a response be provided within a period of 20 working days from the date hereof.
Yours faithfully,
Richard roberts
Subject Line: FOI 2021_002055 Acknowledgment
Dear Mx Robert
Thank you for your request for Spelthorne Borough Council which we received on
08-Apr-2020. We will be dealing with your request for information in accordance
with the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and have assigned it a reference of FOI
2021_002055 and forwarded it to the appropriate department who will respond
directly to you. Under the Act we have 20 working days to respond to your
request.
Dealing with your request: In normal circumstances we should be able to (a)
confirm or deny that we hold this information and (b) if we hold it, send it to
you within the statutory timescale of 20 working days. You should note however
that the Act defines a number of exemptions which may prevent us complying with
either of these duties. We will explain if this is the case and if we apply the
'public interest test' to our decision.
If the information is readily available by other means, such as on our website,
we will point you in this direction and would not generally expect to reproduce
it specifically, and we will tell you this as soon as we can.
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you know. A fee notice will be issued to you, and you will be required to pay
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Yours sincerely
FOI Team
Spelthorne Borough Council, Council Offices, Knowle Green, Staines-upon-Thames,
TW18 1XB
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