The Local Council Report / Council tax collection / Ct receipts inyear · markdown view

Ct receipts inyear

£000 · extracted · billing authority

This is the total council tax money a council actually banked during the year for this year's bills. Set against the amount billed, it produces the headline collection rate. A bigger gap between what was billed and what was banked means more households' bills went unpaid by year end.

Definition

namect_receipts_inyear
dataset03-council-tax-collection
kindextracted
typenumeric
unit£000
grainbilling authority
roledenominator
sourcedata/Table_9_QRC4_2024-25.ods / sheet Table_9a / col 8 "4. Total 2024-25 receipts, net of refunds"
period2024-25 financial year
missingnessunknown
score_noteAbsolute receipts largely restate debit x rate; serves as a denominator, not a signal.
peer_groupcouncil class (district / county / unitary / metropolitan / London) — not yet scored on the leaderboard

Total council tax actually collected for 2024-25 by 31 March 2025, net of refunds. Together with the collectable debit it determines the headline in-year collection rate, and it serves as the denominator for quarterly-share and enforcement-cost ratios. In-year receipts understate ultimate collection, since further amounts arrive as arrears in later years.