Too hard to collect: Council to write off £650k in unpaid tax

More than £650,000 in council tax is to be written off after it was decided the cash could not be recovered.

- by Don Mort

Leeds City Council decided it would not be able to collect some funds still outstanding from the financial years 2010-11 and 2011-12.

Some of the cash was owed by people who had been made bankrupt along with others who had died, a council report said.

The report said: “Each individual debt has been individually reviewed and revenue management considered that there is no realistic prospect of collection.”

Some £311,300 was outstanding from 2010-11 and £344,000 from the following year.