Current Business Rates Information
Dear Stratford on Avon District Council,
In accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000, and subject to section 40(2) on personal data, could you provide me with the following current business rates account data for your local authority.
Please note that I do not require any personal data or data in respect of sole traders or partnerships. This is a request for information in respect of companies, charities, councils and other organisations only.
This request is only in respect of businesses that are deemed to be occupied for business rates purposes. Do not provide any information is respect of properties that are considered to be empty or unoccupied for business rates purposes.
The provision of this information is in the public interest as your authority is currently awarding grants and discounts worth tens of millions of pounds to ratepayers. Nationally, councils are awarding grants and discounts worth tens of billions of pounds to companies and organisations, some of which have turnovers of billions of pounds. Some of these ratepayers may previously have been reported as engaging in activities that aim to reduce the amount of tax that they are liable to pay. As such, I believe that the provision of this information is in the interest of taxpayers and the wider public.
• Property Reference
• Liable Party Name
• Property Address
• Rateable Value
• Property Description
• Billing or Correspondence address
• Liability Start Date
• Current entitlement to any Reliefs or Discounts (do not include details of any empty property reliefs)
• Start date of the entitlement to any current reliefs or discounts
Please provide these data as machine-readable as either a CSV or Microsoft Excel file.
Yours faithfully,
Jane Coates
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FOI Response #14945
FOI #14945
Dear Jane Coates
Further to your request, attached is the current NDR property list as of
22/04/2020.
Following the decision of the first -tier Tribunal (General Regulatory
Chamber) Information Rights heard at Sheffield Magistrates Court on 7th
October 2019 before Judge Sophie Buckley, Dave Sivers, Paul Taylor between
Westminster City Council and The Information Commissioner and Gavic Chait,
Stratford District Council will only disclose the property details
attached.
I am unable to disclose the details you have requested, but have attached
the information I am able to disclose.
The question asked was not answered in full for the following legal
reason(s) -
* Section 31 - Disclosure of the information would be likely to
prejudice law enforcement activities including those relating to tax
collection and immigration controls
If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you have the
right to ask for an internal review. An internal review request should be
submitted in writing within 40 working days of receiving the original
reply and should be addressed to:
Phil Grafton, Monitoring Officer, Stratford-on-Avon District Council,
Elizabeth House, Church Street, Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6HX.
If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have
the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a
decision. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at:
Information Commissioner's Office,
Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF.
Regards
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Stratford-on-Avon District Council
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Dear Stratford on Avon District Council,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Stratford on Avon District Council's handling of my FOI request 'Current Business Rates Information'.
You have refused my request in accordance with Section 31 and referred to a first -tier Tribunal (General Regulatory Chamber) Information Rights heard at Sheffield Magistrates Court on 7th October 2019 before Judge Sophie Buckley, Dave Sivers, Paul Taylor between Westminster City Council and The Information Commissioner and Gavin Chait.
You have then gone on to explain that disclosure of the information would be likely to prejudice law enforcement activities including those relating to tax collection and immigration controls.
However, the case that you have referred to is not relevant to my request as that request asked for details of empty properties and the reason for refusal was based upon the potential for crime to be committed at those empty properties if that information was provided.
However, I have specifically asked you to exclude details of empty properties from your response, so it is not clear (as you have failed to detail a specific reason) why you have refused my request on the basis of s31 when I have not requested details of empty properties.
As a result, I ask that you look at the request again and provide the information that has been requested - which does not include any information regarding empty properties.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/c...
Yours faithfully,
Jane Coates
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Processing Internal Review (FOI/EIR) Request
Internal Review (FOI/EIR) #20235
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response may take up to 20 working days. If you have not received a
response after 18/06/2020 , please contact the council
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Regards,
Freedom of Information Officer
Stratford-on-Avon District Council
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Internal Review (FOI/EIR) Response
#20235
Dear Jane Coates
Further to your request for an Internal Review, please see attached the
response.
If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you have the
right to ask for an internal review. An internal review request should be
submitted in writing within 40 working days of receiving the original
reply and should be addressed to:
Phil Grafton, Monitoring Officer,
Stratford-on-Avon District Council,
Elizabeth House,
Church Street,
Stratford-upon-Avon,
Warwickshire
CV37 6HX.
Regards,
Freedom of Information Officer
Stratford-on-Avon District Council
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