Gedling Borough Council must pay back £150,000 to taxi operators in the area after a review found it had been overcharging for licences. Conservative councillors in the opposition described the blunder as “embarrassing”.
The Labour-run council should have held separate accounts for drivers, vehicles and operators, however, during a Licensing Committee meeting on January 24, members were told that, historically, the council had not organised the accounts in this way.
An internal review was conducted last year, followed by another independent review by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA), which found the council had been overcharging taxi operators.
