Enfield teams with Agilisys to recoup council tax debts

A pilot payment-by-results project hopes to collect Enfield LBC’s historic council tax debt previously written off as uncollectible.

By MJ Correspondent | 25 June 2014

A pilot payment-by-results project hopes to collect Enfield LBC's historic council tax debt previously written off as uncollectible.

The council has signed a new agreement with IT firm Agilisys, which will earn a proportion of income collected but receive no fees if it fails.

Cabinet member for finance, Cllr Andrew Stafford, said: ‘Enfield LBC is proud of the fact that we are one of the best performing boroughs when it comes to council tax collection and that 98% of all debt is collected successfully.

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