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5 billion of Council Tax last year'. Council collection rates have been around 97% for the last few years against properties that Council Tax departments know about.
GeoPlace co-ordinates a national programme of work to help councils bring together address datasets from across their organisations into one corporate address database which is used as a single view of properties in each council.
Councils such as Salford City Council, Leeds City Council, Newport City Council and Cardiff City Council have used their address databases to identify properties that should be paying council tax but as yet haven't.
Each council's local address list is constantly updated with information such as new builds, splits, mergers and demolitions. In the councils mentioned above, the local address and Council Tax teams share their address intelligence to ensure the council has maximum understanding of changes and to ensure residents pay the appropriate council tax revenues and receive the services they require.
In Salford, this arrangement led to outstanding Council Tax queries being reduced by 43% over a 5 month period. In Leeds, the team have located 58 assessments in total (44 council tax properties and 14 business rate eligible properties) which equates to a total annual revenue of £92,826.27. This includes seven assessments that were back dated for five years or more. The highest single assessment was for a missing office building which pays an annual figure of £11,076.00.
In Wales, increased revenue from identification of missing properties â over £100,000 from Newport and Cardiff alone, with a further £160,000 from the nine additional participating local authorities. Future improvements, based on the evidence of projected benefits, are likely to be over £500 000 across Wales â potentially in excess of £7 million when extended throughout England and Wales.
The address data held by councils such as Leeds, Salford, Newport and Cardiff is provided under contract to GeoPlace and placed into the National Address Gazetteer. Ordnance Survey uses this data to create the AddressBase® range of products and make them available to the whole of the public sector. This means that the public sector uses one definitive list of addresses to join up information for service improvement, efficiency and delivery. The work in Leeds, Salford, Newport and Cardiff is one example of local use of the data.
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GeoPlace
GeoPlace is a public sector limited liability partnership between the Local Government Association and Ordnance Survey. GeoPlace's role is to create and maintain the National Address Gazetteer and the National Street Gazetteer for England and Wales, providing definitive sources of publicly-owned spatial address and street data for Great Britain.
Ordnance Survey
Ordnance Survey is Great Britain's national mapping authority. Its job is to collect, maintain and distribute the most accurate and up-to-date geographic information (GI) of the whole country that government, business and individuals rely on.
Department of Communities and Local Government
Official figures reveal âroom to improve' Council Tax collection - https://www.gov.uk/government/...
Case studies from Leeds, Salford and Newport are available at;
Leeds City Council â the benefits of data matching
Salford City Council â making the most of its knowledge
Welsh authorities to generate £500 000 of additional revenue
Contact
Gayle Gander
Head of Marketing
GeoPlace
157-159 Buckingham Palace Road
London
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+44(0) 20 7630 4600
[email protected]
www.geoplace.co.uk
