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Salford
City Council - Record of Decision
 
I, Councillor Jack Youd,
Lead Member for Finance, Support
Services & Industrial Relations, in exercise of the powers
contained within the Council Constitution, do herby approve the write-off of irrecoverable debts as outlined
below: -
                                                                         

Council Tax                                                             
£ 1,016,100.19
Housing Benefit
Overpayments                           
£     
17,404.23
 
The
Reasons are:
The liabilities mentioned in the
report for write-off are irrecoverable.
 
Options considered and rejected were:  
To leave outstanding amounts on
the accounts for a further period.
 
Assessment of Risk:
The write-off of irrecoverable
amounts is an essential part of account administration. The total
write-off value is for debts in this report, which are debts from
all years from years 1993 to present, as a percentage of the
council tax net collectable debit for financial year 2023/2024 is
0.58%
 
The source of funding
is: The bad debt provision.
 
Legal Advice
obtained:Supplied by Ashley Marks, Principal
Lawyer
I have looked at the write off
report for the period 01 March 2023 to 30 June 2023 and can confirm
that the specific write off categories are all clear and cover the
most common scenarios where the legal advice from my team would be
that the debt be written off as non-recoverable.
 
Financial Advice
obtained:
Supplied by David Eden, Finance Manager
There are sufficient provisions
available to cover the cost of the proposed write offs.
 
The
following documents have been used to assist the decision
process:
Some of the relevant documents
contain exempt or confidential information and are not available
for public inspection. Other
documents which are in the public domain are the relevant write-off
strategies.
 
Contact
Officer:Penny Mitchell
– Service Manager – Council Tax
 
Tel: 0161 793 3460            
Email: penny.mitchell@salford.gov.uk
 
This decision is not subject to
consideration by another Lead Member.
 
The appropriate scrutiny panel
to call-in the decision is the Overview and Scrutiny
Board.
 
 
Signed:                                                                     
Date: 18th July 2023
Lead Member for Finance,
Support Services & Industrial Relations
                                                                                                                                               
 
This decision was published on
18th July 2023.
 
This decision will come into
force at 4.00pm on 25th July 2023, unless it is
called-in in accordance with the decision-making process
rules.