Issue - meetings

To consider adoption of a Council Tax and Business Rate Recovery Policy.

(Report attached)

RECOMMENDED that

1)         the Council Tax and Non-Domestic Rates Recovery Policy attached at Appendix 1 to the report to the Committee be approved; and

RESOLVED that

2)         the use of a second referral bailiff company to take action in the cases determined in accordance with the Council Tax and Non-Domestic Rates Recovery Policy be approved.

A report was considered that set out a proposed policy and procedures for the recovery of Council Tax and Non-Domestic Rates. A second matter that Members were asked to consider was approval of the use of “second referral” bailiffs in appropriate cases.

Members were reassured that consultation had been undertaken with groups representing the views of debtors and that the second referral bailiffs that the Council were looking to engage complied with the authority’s standards in the same way as the Council’s existing contractor. It was explained that the second referral bailiff would operate in essentially the same manner as the first but that the engagement of a second firm was considered worthwhile inasmuch as it focussed the main contractor on their performance.

RECOMMENDED that

1)         the Council Tax and Non-Domestic Rates Recovery Policy attached at Appendix 1 to the report to the Committee be approved; and

RESOLVED that

2)         the use of a second referral bailiff company to take action in the cases determined in accordance with the Council Tax and Non-Domestic Rates Recovery Policy be approved.