High Cost/Bulk Council Tax Liability Orders Impossible to Defend?
Dear Billing Authority
Complaints to Magistrates for Council Tax (CT) Liability Orders.
Going as far back as is reasonable (eg 5 years), up to the most recent data available, Please could you provide me with a table of information under the following headings:-
1. Date Of hearing
2. Number of CT Accounts Listed on a Complaint
3. Total Court fee paid
4. length of hearing - defended/undefended
5. Number of CT accounts Liability Order made against
6. Total costs awarded to Billing authority
7. Actual cost of preparing for and attending the hearing.
8. Number of Accounts in name of a Limited Company?
Yours faithfully,
Lady Fleming
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Information Governance Team
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Dear Lady Fleming
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 – INFORMATION REQUEST
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Information Governance Team
Governance and Partnerships | Blackpool Council |Number One| Bickerstaffe Square |Talbot Road |Blackpool |FY1 3AH
Post to: Blackpool Council | PO Box 4 | Blackpool | FY1 1NA
T: 01253 477477
E: [Blackpool Council request email]
Dear Ms Fleming
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 – INFORMATION REQUEST
I am writing to confirm that we have now completed our search for the
information you requested on 5^th February 2019.
A copy of the information that you requested is enclosed, and detailed
below:
Q1 Please see attached spreadsheet
Q2. Please see attached spreadsheet
Q3. £3 per Liability Order granted, until July 2018 when this was reduced
to £0.50.
Q4. The Council does not hold this information.
Q5. Please see attached spreadsheet.
Q6. Please see attached pdf document for 2018/19. This is a shared service
and part of the information has been blanked out. The starting point is
£681,731 and the share attributable to Blackpool Council is £505,338 –
resulting in costs of £57.50.
Q7. As per Question 6.
Q8. The Council does not hold this information.
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