Lancashire's struggling authorities are owed millions in unpaid council tax and business rates
Millions and millions of pounds are owed to cash strapped councils by residents who haven’t paid their council tax, or businesses who haven’t paid their rates.
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Frustrated authorities have been unable to do anything about the cash owed to them so far this financial year as no summonses or liability orders have been able to be issued by recovery teams due to COVID-19.
Data from a Freedom of Information request to seven authorities shows in Preston alone, £5,160,440 was owed by the end of the 2019/20 financial year as 2,338 people failed to pay their council bills.
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Hide AdAs the financial year ended a month or so into the coronavirus pandemic, those figures aren’t likely to have fully been impacted by Covid-19.