We support local authorities in achieving measurable results through accurate data and effective revenue recovery. The examples below highlight how this delivers clarity, confidence and proven outcomes in practice.
Salford City Council has procured the full suite of Analyse Local services for over three years, and we continue to be extremely pleased with both the level of support provided and the financial outcomes achieved for the city.
Throughout our partnership, the team at Analyse Local have been consistently helpful, responsive, and proactive. They have become an integral partner in supporting our service through ongoing changes to the business rates landscape. Their expertise and the quality of their tools continue to be invaluable to us.
Analyse Local was appointed by Birmingham City Council’s Revenues Service to carry out an exercise to find missing and undervalued hereditaments in the city.
Analyse Local using their AL Maximise Business software, has been able to identify a significant increase in rateable value. The quality of the information received from Analyse Local is of a high standard and has been used by ourselves to raise reports to the VOA.
We have used the AL Maximise Business service for four years and have identified over £1.4 million in additional RV.
We are so pleased with the results that we have since expanded our relationship to include the AL Verify Validate service and the AL Maximise Domestic service along with additional tools that help us keep up to date with important news, case law, legislation and assess the potential impact of appeals through a simple, user friendly interface.
As it is updated regularly we are always able to provide colleagues in finance with the latest position, since the localisation of business rates the estimation of future yield and losses from appeals has become a high priority for us.
The tool was particularly useful in the completion of the NNDR1 return and the verification of previous estimates made.
There is also a drive in authorities to maximise the NNDR base and the accuracy and detail of the information provided in respect of missing properties from AL Maximise Business is extensive and in many cases would not have been identified using existing Council procedures or resources.
Regrettably our software company was unable to assist. Analyse Local have provided easy to understand reports for our returns and also identified “high value” hereditaments that are subject to appeal, giving estimated potential losses liability for both current and previous years.
At least when our NDR outturn is audited I will have some basis to substantiate my entries!
The appeals forecasts we have received from Analyse Local have removed the concerns we had in trying to estimate ourselves and are proving to be accurate.
We recovered the cost of the product in the first three months and would not be able to find the potential business rate targets easily and quickly without AL Maximise Business.
This is an invaluable tool for the team.
Inform were fully committed to ensuring that we had the product up and running to assist with the completion of the NNDR1 despite the very short timescale we gave them.
The training was detailed and the support and communication with our Account Manager has been excellent on an ongoing basis.
The forecasting reports are very useful and provided us with the extra degree of confidence in the appeals figures used in the completion of the NNDR1 form that had been missing in previous years.
