We wish to obtain information relating to unclaimed business rate credit balances, including any write-on’s (credits written down to nil).

1. Please provide me with a list of credit balances (and write-on’s) currently held on business rate accounts within your Billing Authority, which remain due to be repaid to Limited Companies. It would be helpful if the following information could be provided in each case:-
a) The name of the Company to whom any business rate credit balance (or write-on) remains payable;
b) The amount of the overpayment (write-on) which remains unclaimed;
c) The years(s) in which overpayment (write-on) was made;
d) The hereditament address.
We publish our Business Rates information, and update this on a regular basis. Therefore we are refusing this request under Section 21 and 22 of the Freedom of Information Act. This information can be found on the following page under the Business Rates category and we would ask you to bookmark this page for future reference if you find it of interest; http://www.wokingham.gov.uk/council-and-meetings/open-data/datasets-and-open-data

The public interest test has been considered and as the information is updated periodically, and resource is better utilised elsewhere within the authority, it is not appropriate to create the dataset outside of the usual scheduled slot.