Reference: FOI-464860082
Date of request: 11/11/2022
Title of request: Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data
(Q3 2022) MSDC

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Reference: FOI-464860082
Date of request: 14/11/2022
Title of request: Complete Non-Residential / Business Property Rates Data
(Q3 2022) MSDC
Information request:

Dear Mid Suffolk District Council,

In terms of the Freedom of Information Act of 2000, and subject to section
40(2) on personal data, could you please provide me with your local
authority’s complete and most-recently updated list of all business
(non-residential) property rates data, including the following fields:

- Billing Authority Property Reference Code (linking the property to the
public VOA database reference)

- Firm's Trading Name (i.e. property occupant or ratepayer)

- Full Property Address (Number, Street, Postal Code, Town)

- Occupation / Vacancy status

- Date of Occupation / Vacancy

- Actual annual rates charged (in Pounds) and/or categories of
reliefs/exemptions granted

If you are unable to provide an absolute “Occupation / Vacancy” status,
please provide the Exemptions and / or Reliefs that a particular property
may be receiving.

NOTE: While FOIs are meant to be requestor blind, these data are actively
used by national government and UK universities to inform the economic
response to COVID-19. Most recently, these data were used by MHCLG for the
assessment of support to local authorities via the LEVELLING UP FUND.

Please publish quickly so that organisations trying to support your local
authority can do so,  and, if you have any difficulties, please contact me
so that I may help.

Please provide these data as machine-readable as either a CSV or Microsoft
Excel file, capable of re-use, and under terms of the Open Government
Licence (reuse for any and all purposes, including commercial).

I last requested these data three months ago, and this is a request for
your latest updated dataset.

Yours faithfully,

Gavin Chait

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