00:00Council tax in Leeds was increased by 4.99% this year as the authority seeks to make more than £100 million in savings.
00:09Leeds City Council have now announced though that more than £650,000 in council tax is to be written off after it was decided that the cash could not be recovered.
00:19The outstanding money is from the financial years 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 and is expected to be written off with some of the cash owed by people who had been made bankrupt along with others who had died.
00:33A council report said that each debt has been individually reviewed and revenue management considered there is no realistic prospect of collection.
00:42Approximately £311,300 was outstanding from 2010-2011 and £344,000 from the following year.
00:52The report pointed out that the amounts to be written off represented a small percentage of the council's total liability, around 0.1% for both years.
01:02Outstanding council tax remained payable when a householder had died, but the debts sometimes had to be written off if they had no assets.
01:09Enforcement agencies were used if a council taxpayer had disappeared without paying, but some could not be traced.
01:16The report said that in all cases, concerted efforts were made to trace the debtor.
01:22In cases of financial hardship, debts were cancelled when recovery action had been exhausted.
01:27The report also added that for bankruptcies, these debts are only written off if the insolvency practitioners report that there are no assets out of which the creditors can be paid.
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