This is the total unpaid business rates (the tax on shops, offices and other business premises) still owed to a council at year end — the business-world twin of the unpaid council tax pile. It shows whether collection problems extend beyond households to local firms. A small pile means businesses largely pay up; a large one means unpaid business tax has been building up.
| name | nndr_arrears_stock |
|---|---|
| dataset | 03-council-tax-collection |
| kind | extracted |
| type | numeric |
| unit | £000 |
| grain | billing authority |
| role | feature |
| source | data/Table_9_QRC4_2024-25.ods / sheet Table_9b / col 30 |
| period | as at 31 March 2025 |
| missingness | unknown |
| score_note | NNDR mirror stock; useful breadth but an unnormalised absolute like its CT twin. |
| peer_group | council class (district / county / unitary / metropolitan / London) — not yet scored on the leaderboard |
Business-rates arrears outstanding at 31 March 2025, the NNDR mirror of ct_arrears_stock. It shows whether accumulated collection failure extends beyond council tax to the business-rates stream. Absolute values scale with the size of the local business-rates base, so normalise before comparing across councils.