Privacy information for specific services

For Revenues purposes, the personal information we have collected from you will be used for a number of purposes. These include;

• the assessment or collection of a tax or duty or an imposition of a similar nature;
• the protection of the Council’s property and assets;
• the prevention or detection of tax avoidance and evasion through the Council Tax and Non Domestic Rates schemes;
• utilising the information in risk assessment systems and data-matching initiatives; this may include matching your data against internally held and external data, including credit reference data;
• sharing the information with government bodies and fraud prevention agencies who will use it to prevent fraud and money-laundering and to verify your identity;
• for the prevention or detection of crime.

Credit reference data is not used for the administration of Housing Benefit.