Non-domestic rating: challenges and changes, England and Wales, March 2017 (experimental)
Experimental statistics on challenges and reviews against the 2005 and 2010 local rating lists as at 31 March 2017.
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This is the latest experimental statistical release on non-domestic rating: challenges and changes (also known as business rates). The release provides statistics on the Valuation Office Agency’s (VOA) workload – challenges, reviews of rating assessments (known as “reports”) made against properties in both the 2005 and 2010 local rating lists and the settlement of challenges. These are shown at quarterly intervals and are broken down to national, regional and local authority levels.
The first part of the release (challenges and changes tables) includes counts of challenges and assessment reviews received, resolved and unresolved. These are for each financial quarter from the start of both the 2005 and 2010 local rating lists to the end of March 2017 (the 2005 rating list represents figures from 1st April 2005 and the 2010 rating list represents figures from 1st April 2010). It also includes counts of unique properties which have been the subject of challenges and / or assessment reviews.
The second part of the release (settlements tables) includes regional and national statistics on settlements of challenges and valuation/lands tribunal cases made against the 2005 and 2010 local rating lists since the start of the lists.
This publication is labelled as “experimental”, consistent with the UK Statistics Authority guidance on new statistical outputs. This helps users to identify those new official statistics that are undergoing evaluation and where we’re actively inviting feedback on their usefulness. Comments, which will help inform future releases, may be sent to statistics@voa.gsi.gov.uk.
The “experimental” classification should not be interpreted as a qualifier of the content itself: all the statistical tables released are based on sound methods and assured quality, consistent with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics. However, during the “experimental” period VOA will continue to develop the publication, and so the presentation and content is liable to change. Content may be added to or replaced by equivalent statistics if other forms are found to be more useful or reliable.