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Council Tax: challenges and changes in England and Wales, 2017-18 (30 May 2019)
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Council Tax: challenges and changes in England and Wales, 2017-18
Statistics on challenges against and changes made to the England and Wales Council Tax valuation lists between 1 April 2017 and 31 March 2018.
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Update: 30 May 2019
As part of our drive to improve the quality of our Official Statistics publications, we are currently reviewing the methodology for these series and we wanted to inform users of this. As set out on in our background information note our current methodology is to take an extract at a particular date for each of the publication years which captures all of the Challenges and Changes recorded in that year at a point in time but that there may be delays in the processing of information on the VOA computer system.
We are currently exploring an improved methodology that better reflects these delays. We are planning on publishing tables under the new methodology in autumn 2019 and until then we are marking our current statistics as provisional.
This release provides statistics on the challenges against entries in the Council Tax valuation lists for England (1993) and Wales (2005), including the reasons and outcomes of the challenges; it also provides statistics on changes to the Council Tax valuation lists. This is the fourth time the VOA has published information on the number of challenges received and the number outstanding.
Statistics are published at national, regional and local authority level.
The figures are derived from data for England and Wales, taken from the VOA’s administrative database as at 31 March 2018.
Counts are rounded to the nearest 10 with counts fewer than five but greater than zero reported as negligible and denoted by ‘-‘. Totals may not sum due to rounding.
For further details on the information included in this release, including a glossary of terms and a variable list for the CSV format files, please refer to the release notes.
If you have any questions or comments about this release, please email the VOA statistics team:
Published 24 May 2018
Last updated 30 May 2019 + show all updates
Last updated 30 May 2019 + show all updates