This is the total amount of council tax a council expected to collect from households this year — essentially the size of its billing job. On its own it mostly reflects how big the council is, so it's mainly used as the yardstick against which payments, unpaid amounts and write-offs are measured. Bigger numbers just mean a bigger tax base, not better or worse performance.
| name | ct_collectable_debit |
|---|---|
| dataset | 03-council-tax-collection |
| kind | extracted |
| type | numeric |
| unit | £000 |
| grain | billing authority |
| role | denominator |
| source | data/Table_9_QRC4_2024-25.ods / sheet Table_9a / col 5 "1. Estimated net collectable debit in respect of 2024-25" |
| period | 2024-25 financial year |
| missingness | unknown |
| score_note | Clean published denominator that mostly measures council size, not performance. |
| peer_group | council class (district / county / unitary / metropolitan / London) — not yet scored on the leaderboard |
The estimated net council tax the authority was due to collect in-year, i.e. the size of its collection task. It is the natural denominator for normalising receipts, arrears and write-offs by council size. The collectable base is affected by local council tax support schemes, so it is not a pure measure of tax demand.