Council Tax, Benefits and Business Rates

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Welcome to the Revenues and Benefits home page . Here you can find out information about Council Tax, Business Rates, Housing and Council Tax Benefit.

Revenues and Benefits is managed by Clive Jones, Director of Customer Services. Revenues and Benefits has two main areas of activity.

The Customer Accounts team responsible for -

• Administration of the Housing Benefit (HB).
• Administration of Council Tax Benefit (CTB).
• Provision of general welfare benefit advice.
• Investigations into fraudulent HB and/or CTB claims.
• Council Tax billing.
• Granting Council Tax Discounts and Exemptions.

The Revenues team consists of the Non-Domestic Rates team, Income and System Controls and our centralised arrears Recovery team. The section is responsible for -

• Recovery of all debts due to the Council.
• Administration of Non-Domestic Rates.
• Administration of Mortgages.
• Collection of all revenue and the processing of bank and post office income.
• Administration of the Council's Revenues and Benefits computer systems

This year, the Division will:

• Collect around £63m in Council Tax payments on behalf of Mid Beds District Council, Beds County Council, the Police Authority and the Town and Parish Councils.
• Collect around £28m in Non-Domestic Rates.
• Collect around £4m in other debts due to the Council.
• Pay out £20m in Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit.