Huge £42m Debt written off by City Council

Millions of pounds of unpaid council tax debt has been written off by an authority, it has been revealed.
A Liverpool City Council report said about £42m of debts, which was mostly uncollected council tax dating back to 1997, was now “clearly irrecoverable”.
The Labour-run authority said “regular review and write-off of debt” was a “standard financial practice”.
The council’s Liberal Democrat opposition said it was a “smack in the face”