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Department of the Environment: Finance, Local Taxation Division (FLT and FLTG Series)...
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| Reference | AT 47 |
|---|---|
| Title | Department of the Environment: Finance, Local Taxation Division (FLT and FLTG Series) Files |
| Date | 1963-1990 |
| Description | This series contains policy and case-work files of the Finance, Local Taxation Division. The files concern local taxation, particularly rating, and relate to the rating and valuation of property, including business premises and educational establishments under the General Rate Act of 1966, and the inter-departmental working party set up in the same year to look into ways of improving the rating system. The series includes some earlier files which were re-registered into the FLT series from the 90,000 series: HLG 89 |
| Arrangement | The files in this series will be transferred in more than one batch and arranged in previous reference order within each accession. |
| Related material |
Further files relating to local government finance will be found in: HLG 57 HLG 154 |
| Held by | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department | FLT and FLTG. This is one of several series which used five digit primary numbers; these numbers originated in the Ministry of Health file registration system. |
| Legal status | Public Record(s) |
| Language |
English |
| Creator |
Department of the Environment, Finance (Local Government and Development) Directorate, Local Taxation Division, 1971-1974 |
| Physical description | 206 file(s) |
| Access conditions | Open |
| Immediate source of acquisition |
From 1995 Department of the Environment |
| Accumulation dates | 1973 |
| Accruals | Series is accruing. |
| Selection and destruction information | Case-work files dealing with boundary changes in England and Wales have not been preserved. |
| Administrative/ biographical background | The Finance, Local Taxation Division was responsible for rating (local government taxation) and for the supervision of local valuation panels. These responsibilities were later exercised by Local Taxation and General Division from 1978 to 1980, and by the Finance Local Government Directorate from 1980 onwards. |
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