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Unpaid tax bills leave authorities £10m short
Express & Star 20 July 09
Walsall fifth best nationally for collection rate
Local authorities in the Black Country and Staffordshire are still chasing more than £10 million in unpaid council tax from last year. But Walsall was named fifth best nationally for its collection rate of 96.9%. Council leader Mike Bird said: “We are quite aggressive in our approach, but we are compassionate with those people with problems”…