{"id":58059,"date":"2015-06-17T14:31:15","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T14:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=a260a07c1dfcaf59ced2f2377e2dfecb"},"modified":"2015-06-17T14:31:15","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T14:31:15","slug":"news-story-commecial-leases-and-business-rate-referrals-by-local-authorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=58059","title":{"rendered":"News story: Commecial leases and business rate referrals by local authorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>You can read more about the background to bona vacantia and how it arises in our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/bona-vacantia-dissolved-companies-bvc1\">Bona vacantia dissolved companies BVC1<\/a> document.  This guidance will also tell you whether the Treasury Solicitor is the correct person to send your referral to.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"what-bvd-can-deal-with\">What BVD can deal with?<\/h3>\n<p>We can handle requests to  disclaim commercial leases that belonged to dissolved companies.<br \/>\nTo enable us to deal with referrals for disclaimer as quickly as possible please remember to send us  all the information set out in our  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/refer-a-commercial-lease-for-disclaimer-bvc3\">Bona vacantia dissolved companies BVC3<\/a> guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>We can also accept overpayments of business rates that are due to a dissolved company because any money due to a company at the time it is dissolved becomes bona vacantia and belongs to the Crown.<\/p>\n<p>Please send any overpayments of business rates to BVD with the information set out in our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/send-a-cash-balance-to-the-treasury-solicitor-cb1\">Bona vacantia dissolved companies CB1<\/a> guidelines.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"what-can-bvd-not-deal-with\">What can BVD not deal with?<\/h3>\n<p>Liabilities of a dissolved company do not pass to the Crown.<\/p>\n<p>BVD cannot therefore meet any liabilities of a dissolved company including a liability due to a local authority.<\/p>\n<p>Please do not send BVD demands for payment or statements relating to business rate liability as we will usually return these to you.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bona Vacantia Division (BVD) receive various referrals from local authorities some of which we can deal with and others which we cannot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}