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TUC Congress told of £745,666,831 million uncollected council tax in 408 UK councils in 2007/8
Birmingham tops the West Midlands league for
the amount of uncollected council tax of £16,258,000. Second was Coventry
with £5,106,000 uncollected, Wolverhampton at £2,846,000, Walsall at £2,621,000 and Stoke-on-Trent
at £2,538,000 uncollected.
At the other end of the league table came the South
Shropshire with £183,000 uncollected Council tax. The figures for all 34 West Midlands
councils in 2007/8 are shown in the table below.
This new analysis by GMB, public services union, published this morning
at the TUC Congress in Brighton shows that 34 West Midlands councils were unable to collect
a total of £54,316,000 council tax in the financial year 2007/8. The uncollected council tax for the 34 councils in the previous
year amounted to £57,800,910. This shows a slight drop in the amount uncollected in the West Midlands
as a whole of £3,483,910.
For Great Britain
as a whole the amount of uncollected council tax in 2007/8 was £745,666,831 million. This compared with £760,603,129 million
in 2006/7. 352 English councils’ uncollected council tax amount to £600,754,831 and for Wales 22 councils it was £33,074,000 for 2007/8.
UNCOLLECTED COUNCIL TAX WEST MIDLAND 2007/8
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1 |
Birmingham |
£16,258,000 |
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2 |
Coventry |
£5,106,000 |
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3 |
Wolverhampton |
£2,846,000 |
|
4 |
Walsall |
£2,621,000 |
|
5 |
Stoke-on-Trent |
£2,538,000 |
|
6 |
Dudley |
£1,889,000 |
|
7 |
Sandwell |
£1,738,000 |
|
8 |
Stafford |
£1,658,000 |
|
9 |
Stratford-on-Avon |
£1,517,000 |
|
10 |
Solihull |
£1,313,000 |
|
11 |
Newcastle-under-Lyme |
£1,300,000 |
|
12 |
Herefordshire |
£1,134,000 |
|
13 |
Telford and Wrekin |
£1,125,000 |
|
14 |
Nuneaton and Bedworth |
£1,011,000 |
|
15 |
Wychavon |
£913,000 |
|
16 |
Redditch |
£911,000 |
|
17 |
Lichfield |
£890,000 |
|
18 |
Worcester |
£863,000 |
|
19 |
Cannock Chase |
£780,000 |
|
20 |
South Staffordshire |
£762,000 |
|
21 |
East Staffordshire |
£734,000 |
|
22 |
Warwick |
£698,000 |
|
23 |
Bromsgrove |
£652,000 |
|
24 |
Rugby |
£623,000 |
|
25 |
Wyre Forest |
£622,000 |
|
26 |
Oswestry |
£561,000 |
|
27 |
Tamworth |
£560,000 |
|
28 |
Shrewsbury and Atcham |
£481,000 |
|
29 |
Malvern Hills |
£476,000 |
|
30 |
Bridgnorth |
£410,000 |
|
31 |
North Warwickshire |
£401,000 |
|
32 |
Staffordshire
Moorlands |
£386,000 |
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33 |
North Shropshire |
£356,000 |
|
34 |
South Shropshire |
£183,000 |
Joe
Morgan, GMB Regional Secretary speaking at the TUC Congress in Brighton said, “While showing
some overall improvement, the amount of council tax uncollected remains stubbornly high.
Well over £700 millions remain permanently owed to local authorities in England,
Wales and Scotland. This money is urgently needed by Councils to provide necessary services particularly
to the elderly and vulnerable.”
Ends
Contact: Joe Morgan, GMB Regional Secretary on 07968 064465 or GMB Press Office: Steve Pryle 07921 289880
or Rose Conroy on 07974 251823.
Note to Editors:
1
The source of the data
is the Department of Communities and Local Government. The source of the data for Scotland
was The Scottish Executive and for Wales the Local Government Finance Statistics, National Assembly for Wales.
2
For the full list of
all 354 councils in England and the 22 councils in Wales and the 32 in Scotland
in the analysis go to www.gmb.org.uk
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