FOI Request - Business (non-residential) Property Rates Data

Request 101003270799 

n relation to the Freedom of Information Act of 2000, and subject to section 40(2) on personal data, please can I request a complete and most-recently updated list of all business (non-residential) property rates data, including the following fields:

1: Billing Authority Property Reference Code (linking the property to the public VOA database reference)
2: Firm's Trading Name (i.e. property occupant or ratepayer)
3: Full Property Address (Number, Street, Postal Code, Town)
4: Occupation / Vacancy status
5: Date of Occupation / Vacancy
6: Rateable Value
7: VOA Code
8: VOA Description
9: SIC Description
10: Scat Code
11: Scat Code Description
12: Liability Start Date
13: Discretionary Relief %
14: Discretionary Relief St Date
15: Retail Relief Previously Claimed (TRUE/FALSE)
15: Mandatory Relief %
16: Mandatory Relief Start Date
17: Exemption Granted (TRUE/FALSE)
18: Exemption Start Date
19: Full Sbr
20: Buffer Sbr
21: Lower Multiplier
22: The value of any over payment made
23: The years(s) in which any payment may have been made
24: The value of write back which remains unclaimed.
25: The years(s) in which write back was made (if available).

If you are unable to provide an absolute “Occupation / Vacancy” status, please provide the Exemptions and / or Reliefs that a particular property may be receiving.

NOTE: While FOI’s are meant to be requestor blind, the data is actively used by national government and UK universities to inform the economic response to COVID-19. Most recently, the data was used by MHCLG for the assessment of support to local authorities via the levelling up fund.

Please publish quickly so that organisations trying to support your local authority can do so, and, if you have any difficulties, please contact me so that I may help.

Please provide these data as machine-readable as either a CSV or Microsoft Excel file, capable of re-use, and under terms of the Open Government Licence (reuse for all purposes, including commercial).

Clarification sought 30-03-2023

No clarification received therefore request closed 07-06-2023