Response 1067938

Response to request for information

Reference

1067938

Response date

6 April 2023

Request

In relation to the Freedom of Information Act of 2000, and subject to section 40(2) on personal data, please can I request a complete and most-recently updated list of all business (non-residential) property rates data, including the following fields:

1. Billing Authority Property Reference Code (linking the property to the public VOA database reference)
2. Firm's Trading Name (i.e. property occupant or ratepayer)
3. Full Property Address (Number, Street, Postal Code, Town)
4. Occupation / Vacancy status
5. Date of Occupation / Vacancy
6. Rateable Value
7. VOA Code
8. VOA Description
9. SIC Description
10. Scat Code
11. Scat Code Description
12. Liability Start Date
13. Discretionary Relief %
14. Discretionary Relief St Date
15. Retail Relief Previously Claimed (TRUE/FALSE)
16. Mandatory Relief %
17. Mandatory Relief Start Date
18. Exemption Granted (TRUE/FALSE)
19. Exemption Start Date
20. Full Sbr
21. Buffer Sbr
22. Lower Multiplier
23. The value of any over payment made
24. The years(s) in which any payment may have been made
25. The value of write back which remains unclaimed
26. The years(s) in which write back was made (if available)

Response

I have provided that data on the response spreadsheet, some of the information is unknown: 

• SIC Description
• Scat Code
• Scat Code Description
• Lower Multiplier

The Council does not release information about Business Rates accounts that currently have credit balances in response to Freedom of Information requests.

Information in respect of credit balances is considered exempt under section 31(1)(a) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (prevention or detection of crime)

The Council holds this information but believes that its disclosure could result in fraudulent refund claims being made to the Council for these credit balances.

This follows decisions by the Information Commission in respect of requests made to Wandsworth Council and the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham in respect of requests for NNDR credit balances.

The value of any over payment made

The years(s) in which any payment may have been made

The value of write back which remains unclaimed.

The years(s) in which write back was made (if available).