Wandsworth Borough Council extends contract with Liberata to run business rate collections

Liberata, the business process innovation company, today announced that Wandsworth Borough Council has extended its contract with the company to run the collection and processing of business rates until 2019. Liberata has worked with Wandsworth Borough Council since 1999, collecting approximately £119m annually from almost 9,000 businesses trading in the Borough. Since then, Liberata and Wandsworth have worked together in a partnership through various re-bids and extensions; the partnership has enabled Wandsworth to become one of London’s top performers for business rate collections.

Kevin Legg, Assistant Director (Revenue Services) at Wandsworth Borough Council, said: “We look forward to extending our partnership with Liberata. The results speak for themselves, as for the past three years the partnership has helped the council to achieve collection rates of 99%, placing it in the upper quartile for business rate collections across London Boroughs.”

Vijay Chandiramani, COO of Local Government Business Process Services at Liberata, said: “In the face of ongoing challenges, it is important that councils ensure they can effectively collect due revenue. Our ongoing work with Wandsworth is a great example of how our sector specific expertise and effective process automation and data analytics is delivering a cost-effective, low-risk, and high-value services to local councils.”

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As a Council we are focused on ensuring that the services delivered are both sustainable and of the highest quality. We are delighted to be working with Liberata to help deliver these services on behalf of our residents and businesses. Liberata stood out with its ability to drive transformational change and improve customer access and digital services.
Richard Baker
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Following a formal process and tender notice, Liberata stood out with its ability to transform our services and improve customer access and digital services. Liberata has demonstrated it can achieve high collection rates across business rates and Council Tax services and benefits by improving processing times. We look forward to working with Liberata to help transform these services for our residents and ensuring we are providing the appropriate levels of support to the most vulnerable in our area.
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