[Bernard Dawson]

Originally Posted by gynn

There has been much discussion on Breakfast TV this morning about the money Councils are missing out on in uncollected Council Tax.

BBC News - Councils 'missed' £530m in taxes

So how are Hyndburn doing? According to statistics from the Government's web site, here in descending order of success, are the percentages of Council Tax collected by Lancashire Councils in 2010:-

Ribble Valley 99.0 Chorley 98.4 West Lancashire 98.1 Wyre 97.9 South Ribble 97.7 Fylde 97.5 Rossendale 97.5 Lancaster 97.1 Blackburn with Darwen 97.0 Pendle 96.4 Burnley 96.1 Preston 96.0 Hyndburn 95.4 Blackpool 94.4 Lancashire Average 97.0

Only Blackpool, with its notoriously transient population, performed worse.

In cash terms, Hyndburn has missed out on 1.3 million pounds. If it had performed at the Lancashire average, it would have collected a further 466,000 pounds.

Excellent?

Even Rossendale are performing better. Wouldn't have happened in your day.