Council Taxbase Statistical Release

Published by DCLG in 2005

Data Type:Administrative

The release gives the number of dwellings, the number of dwellings that are exempt from Council Tax, and the number liable for Council Tax. For dwellings liable for Council Tax it also gives summary figures for the number receiving different types of Council Tax discounts and premiums.

Time

2005 - On-going (Annual)

The DCLG website provides datasets for 2010-2015. The national archive contains information from 2005. This information will likely have been recorded for earlier years so earlier years may be available by request although this is not clear.

Dataset Quality

None

Dataset Access and Use

Annual tables are available 2005-2015 from the websites detailed above. Additional earlier years may be able to be obtained by request but this is not clear.

Government attitudes to research use of their data appear favourable.

Geography

Coverage: England

Units: Local authority

Coverage map

Resources

URL
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/council-taxbase-2015-in-england
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20120919132719/http://www.communities.gov.uk/localgovernment/localregional/localgovernmentfinance/statistics/counciltaxbase/