Business Rates Liability Orders
Dear Sir/Madame,
I have been given your details as the Foi officer for your Council.
I wish, if i may, to make a Freedom of Information request, I have been
in contact with other councils in the area who have been very helpful
in assisting me collate this information.
I am looking for all Limited Companies in your area who have recently
had or are about to have Liability Orders made against them for Non payment
of Business Rates. So far I have succeeded in obtaining companies who are about
to have the seven day letter sent out to them, with names addresses and amounts
outstanding. The data i am collating is starting from 1st August 2013 so anything
from this date to the current would be perfect.
If you could also supply me with this information I would be very grateful.
Kind Regards,
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I can confirm that we hold this information. However, we consider the information to be exempt from disclosure under Section 43 (2) of the Freedom of Information Act and we will not be providing it to you. This exemption relates to information where disclosure would, or would be likely to, prejudice the commercial interests of any person.
We have considered the public interest test; it is our opinion that the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosure. We consider that disclosing the names of property owners against whom liability orders have been obtained is likely to prejudice their commercial interests; it could damage their reputation and the confidence that their customers, suppliers or financers has in them, and it could have an impact on revenues or threaten their ability to obtain supplies or secure credit.
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This request was made by an anonymous user through mySociety's now defunct FOI Register software (https://www.mysociety.org/2014/02/10/bri...). The integration has now been removed. The external URL for the request was http://foi.brighton-hove.gov.uk/requests....