Council tax and business rates collection rates, England
Accredited official statistics
The share of the council tax and of the business rates (non-domestic rates) due in each financial year that England's billing authorities had collected by the 31st of March, since 2021–22, from MHCLG's Tables 2 and 3.
Council tax collected
95.60%
2025/26 · business rates 96.75%
Verified against source, 9 November 2026, 15:04 UTC- Council tax
- Business rates
Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data table
5 periods, newest first
| Period | Council tax | Business rates |
|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 95.60% | 96.75% |
| 2024/25 | 95.88% | 97.32% |
| 2023/24 | 95.94% | 97.23% |
| 2022/23 | 96.02% | 96.76% |
| 2021/22 | 95.85% | 95.51% |
Source and licence
- Publisher
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Check it yourself
- https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/council-tax-statistics
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Retrieved
- 9 November 2026, 14:51 UTC
- Raw files fetched
- https://www.gov.uk/api/content/government/statistics/collection-rates-for-council-tax-and-non-domestic-rates-in-england-2025-to-2026SHA-256 9896956cdd90eec6f94712a3f30e1dc21bf9afd55d171c22605522aba33beb23 · 20,947 bytes
- https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a6b2f710ddb7e4831c62a2a/Table_2_2025-26.odsSHA-256 6ee451cfb83235035dbaa43a91cd89a63387f31d14c0e0de8fc8bb9b3314d8f8 · 5,191 bytes
- https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a6b2f93862aaf18d9c62a2d/Table_3_2025-26.odsSHA-256 188f71150ee8f0a8c81fce74648bec535ba7ce83d31f7b3b512b8d69d594346d · 5,202 bytes
Verification
Verified against source, 9 November 2026, 15:04 UTC Run at 9 November 2026, 15:04 UTC; 10 of 10 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-11-09T14:51:09Z; 3 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 3 of 3 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 10 of 10 figures and the headline reproduced; the meta's collected match |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 10 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 10 of 10 figures match exactly after downloading 3 source file(s) again (3 byte-identical); the headline matches; the meta's collected match |
| Pass | GOV.UK table is current | latest period 2025/26 ended 223 days before retrieval (limit 500), from the stored table |
| Pass | Table 6 agrees | 4 of 4 figures match Table 6's England rows, https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a6b2fc98319ab05f7caa211/Table_6_2025-26.ods |
| Pass | Source page answers | https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/council-tax-statistics – HTTP 200 |
Notes
- The council tax and business rates collected by England's billing authorities by the 31st of March for that financial year, as a percentage of the amount they expected to collect, as councils return them to MHCLG on the Quarterly Rates Collection form. MHCLG gives each rate to six decimal places.
- The rates for each council are on the hub's pages of council tax collection by council.