Council Tax and Business Rate Recovery Activity by Leicester City Council

Leicester City Council's dataset details recovery activity for Council Tax and Business Rates. It includes the number of properties billed, the volume and value of cases at each recovery stage, and premium charges for long-term vacant and second homes. The data is organized by financial year and updated annually.

Use Cases

• Analyzing recovery process efficiency based on the volume and value of cases at each stage.
• Tracking the impact of policy changes, such as the second home premium effective April 2025.
• Assessing the financial effect of enforcement suspensions during the 2020-2022 coronavirus pandemic.
• Monitoring the application of additional premium charges for homes vacant for two or more years.

Strengths

• Includes data on enforcement agent contracts with specific expiry dates (01/09/2027).
• Documents the suspension of liability order applications during parts of 2020, 2021, and 2022.
• Covers multiple aspects: property counts, case volumes and values, and premium charges.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to a single UK local authority.

Provenance

Source

Leicester City Council

Collection Method

Administrative records from local government operations.

Time Range

Financial years; data includes periods from 2020 onward.

Freshness

Updated annually; last updated 2026-06-17 11:33:54.842372.

Geography

Leicester, United Kingdom.