- Title or Description
- Sporting Rates
- FOI Number
- 2024605
- Date Received
- 11/06/2024
- Type of Request
- FOI
- Request or Question
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The questions concern business rates as reintroduced for sporting rights in the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016. 1. How much money was raised in your council area in sporting rates in 2022?
2. How much money was raised in your council area in sporting rates in 2023?
3. How much money has been raised in your council area in sporting rates to today s date in 2024?
4. What has happened to the money raised by sporting rates? Where is it being spent? - Response
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Q1, Q2 and Q3 Please note the figures below represent payments made to each billing year, e.g. if a customer paid their 2024/25 bill in full on 31 March 2024, the payment will be included in the 2024 billing year figure noted below. Billing Year Funds Received (As at close of business 12 July 2024) 2022 84,199.74 2023 95,121.48 2024 102,586.96
Q4 We do not hold this information as Non-Domestic Rates income is pooled at then redistributed at Scottish Government level. Therefore, we give notice under Section 17 (1) (b) of the Freedom of Information Act 2002. However, you can view further statistical and financial information published in the public domain via Non-domestic rates income statistics - gov.scot (www.gov.scot).
