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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 hereby
approve the proposed write-off of
irrecoverable debts, as outlined below: -
 
Council Tax                                                                
£1,079,061.09
Housing Benefit Overpayments                                
£    
36,260.58
 
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
0.63%
 
The
source of funding is:
The bad debt
provision.
 
Legal Advice
obtained:The specific write off categories are 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:                                                                                    
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
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: Councillor Jack Youd
                                                          
Date: 12th March 2024
Lead Member for Finance,
Support Services & Industrial Relations
                                                                                                                                               
 
This decision was published on
13th March 2024.
 
This decision will come into
force at 4.00pm on 20th March 2024, unless it is
called-in in accordance with the decision-making process
rules.