Clause 22
Business Rate Supplements Bill
Public Bill Committees, 29 January 2009, 9:45 am
Sadiq Khan (Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Community Cohension and Fire and Rescue Service), Department for Communities and Local Government; Tooting, Labour)
I would like take this opportunity to explain the clause. It allows the Secretary of State and Welsh Ministers to make regulations that make provision for billing authorities to retain a proportion of the BRS revenue they collect to meet the expenses they incur in collection or recovery—referred to in the Bill as “administrative expenses”.
Where BRS is collected as part of the annual billing round, the costs will be met from the BRS revenue. Where billing authorities decide to levy the supplement outside the normal non-domestic collection round, the costs of collection will not come from the BRS revenue and will instead be met by the levying authority. Options for how administrative expenses should be calculated will be set out in the consultation paper that we propose to issue shortly on our proposals for secondary legislation.