I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Please provide your most recent available extract of the authority’s non-domestic rating database, covering all hereditaments appearing in the local rating list.
For each hereditament or business-rates account, please provide the following fields where held:
1. Billing Authority property reference number;
2. VOA assessment reference number;
3. Full property address;
4. Property postcode;
5. Property description;
6. Current rateable value;
7. Ratepayer name;
8. Ratepayer type or legal status, where recorded, such as:
- limited company;
- limited liability partnership;
- public body;
- charity;
- partnership;
- sole trader;
- individual;
9. Company registration number, where recorded;
10. Date the current ratepayer became liable;
11. Date liability ended, where applicable;
12. Current occupation status, including whether the property is:
- occupied;
- unoccupied;
- exempt;
- partly occupied;
- deleted from the rating list;
13. Date the property became empty, where applicable;
14. Date any empty-property exemption ends or ended;
15. The type of every mandatory or discretionary relief currently applied;
16. The percentage or monetary amount of each relief;
17. The commencement date of each relief;
18. The end date of each relief, where recorded;
19. Whether the account is currently subject to transitional relief or transitional adjustment;
20. The gross charge for the current financial year;
21. The net charge after reliefs and adjustments;
22. The current account balance, identifying whether it is a debit, nil or credit balance;
23. The date on which the account record was last materially updated.
For the avoidance of doubt, I am requesting information already held within your revenues or non-domestic rating system. I am not asking the authority to undertake property research, make judgements about eligibility or create information that is not already held.
Where the authority considers the names of individuals, sole traders or partners to be exempt under section 40(2), please redact only those names and provide all remaining non-personal information, including the property address, assessment reference, occupation status, liability dates and relief information.
Please do not withhold the names of incorporated companies, limited liability partnerships, public authorities, registered charities or other legal persons on the basis of section 40, as information relating solely to a legal person is not personal data.
If any requested field is not held, please identify that field as not held rather than refusing the request in its entirety.