Decision details

The Executive Meeting considered a report on outstanding debts to the Council with a value of over £10K which were considered to be irrecoverable and agreed that the following debts be written off as irrecoverable:-

·         Housing Benefit overpayment of £14,043.27 as the debtor has absconded and cannot be traced;

·         Housing Benefit overpayment of £18,695.00 as the debtor has absconded and in addition the paperwork necessary for further County Court action is no longer available due to the passage of time;

·         Housing Benefit overpayment of £25,162.84 as the company has been dissolved;

·         outstanding sundry debt of £10,612.50 as the liable organisation no longer exists;

·         Non Domestic Rates debt of £25,134.45 as the debtor has absconded and cannot be traced;

·         Non Domestic Rates debt of £15,988.41 as the debtor has absconded and cannot be traced;

·         Non Domestic Rates of £29,455.24 as the debtor has absconded and cannot be traced;

·         Non Domestic Rates of £33,228.39 as the debtor has absconded and cannot be traced;

·         Non Domestic Rates of £10,489.33 as the debtor has absconded and cannot be traced; and

·         Non Domestic Rates of £12,334.13 as the debtor has absconded and cannot be traced.

(NOTE: the report included information ‘Not for Publication’ contained within its appendix that had been circulated to executive councillors only because the information was considered exempt under Categories 1 (information relating to an individual) and 3 (information relating to the financial or business affairs of an individual (including the authority)) of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended))

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