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With cash caps being applied to the final 9 months of the expanded retail discounts announced in the 2021 budget and them being applied at a Group company level, Local Authorities will need to be able to effectively validate relief entitlements. Our latest blog explains how this can be done...
Collectively business rates and council tax revenue in England and Wales accounted for approximately £57.6 billion in 2018-19. This was split across roughly 25.8 million homes and 2 million commercial premises. These figures are obviously based solely on collections made from properties that are listed on both the council tax banding list and rating list...
Our latest IRRV article explores the importance of billing the correct liable parties for Business Rates and provides some stats on the volume of inaccurate company details and names that are held by councils...
Over 60 Local Authorities have invested in a way to validate their Small Business Rates Relief applications as they come in. Using the HUB national business rates portal they can check instantly whether a company is already receiving relief elsewhere...
Destin Solutions and the Kent Intelligence Network have been nominated for two awards in this years ALARM Risk Awards for their work on tackling Small Business Rates Relief Fraud...
Find out how the work Destin Solutions did on rolling out HUB the small business rates relief fraud solution - was shortlisted for an award in this years Public Finance Awards 2019...
The fastest growing area of fraud in Local Government according to the latest CIPFA (CFaCT) Fraud and Corruption Tracker is business rates, this article explores how some Authorities are already addressing this situation...