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VOA rating list downloads

Welcome to our internet rating list download page. You can obtain a copy of our non-domestic rating lists and summary valuations from here. Downloads are available from this page free of charge. The information must be used in line with the resticted license terms and conditions.

Advanced users will also be able to benefit from using REST storage APIs, and developers from .NET.

If you have any questions or need advice, please use the get help link at the bottom of the page. You will also find general and technical guidance below.


General guidance

Licencing terms and conditions

VOA rating list downloads are only available under our restricted licence terms and conditions. These are the same terms and conditions applicable to viewing rating list information online. An open government licence does not apply.

Downloads are available from this page free of charge. They may be passed on to third parties only after you have communicated to them clearly that our terms and conditions also apply to data you pass on. You may include links to our GOV.UK web pages where appropriate.

Dataset downloads and specification

The rating list and summary valution data is provided for the 2023, 2017 and 2010 list years, with the 2023 list being the live list as of 1 April 2023. Our epochs provide a snapshot of our rating lists and summary valuation data as at the end of a specific day. Rating lists change over their lifetime. List entries that are no longer shown in the current rating list are available in a separate file named "historic entries" (starting from epoch version "0002"). The files containing current and historic entries are included in the same compressed file download.

We intend to continue providing refreshed epoch datasets periodically. In between epochs we provide smaller "change update" files weekly. Change update files can be applied to the most recent epoch to produce an up to date version of the rating list and corresponding summary valuation data. The updates also explain changes and how they have been carried out.

Records are asterisk-delimited. Uncompressed files are ASCII encoded .csv type. Our technical guidance provides full details about how the data in the files is structured. Due to the number of records contained within each file, we recommend using a database product to load them into instead of Excel. Examples include Microsoft Access and MySQL. We invite your feedback about how to deliver our rating list datasets going forward. File names will include version numbering and show which change updates apply to which epoch. Using blob storage APIs, you will also be able to obtain directories of rating list files, their modification dates and initiate downloads automatically.


Downloads

PLEASE NOTE:

Regarding the 2010 List Year Files - Our data supplier team has advised the following in regards to change update files for the 2010 List Year, you can have either a Rating List Schedule or the SMV Schedule without the other file due to very low cases being changed or zero volumes. This means we could receive a Rating List Schedule without the SMV Schedule if there were no bulk class surveys supporting the Rating List Schedule. Or we could receive an SMV Schedule and no Rating List Schedule (as mentioned above) if there are survey cases only. If there are cases for both available then we recieve both files for the 2010 List Year. Therefore we will make the 2010 Change Update Files available when we receive them in the correct sequential version number order per file. We apologises for any inconvenience this causes.

PLEASE NOTE:

We have only received 8 out of 10 RLD Weekly Change Update Schedules for the Rating List and Summary Valuation Lists. There are no 2010 Rating List and Summary Valuation Week Change Update Schedules this week, it appears the files were not extracted and generated. This maybe due to no case data available as very few cases are being altered and changed for the 2010 List Year now. We apologises for any inconvenience this causes.

DATA ISSUE FOR WELLINGBOROUGH PROPERTIES NOTE - 12/02/2025 :

We have been informed there was a bulk update for properties only in the Wellingborough Billing Authority area that caused a technical issue when uploaded on our central database causing duplicated billing authority reference numbers created in the data. This would have impacted the previous and current epoch files. A fix to correct this issue has now been carried out but was done after the latest Epoch Files for End Jan/Feb 2025 was received. The correct Billing Authority Reference numbers can be found on VOA Find My Business Rates website. We apologises for any inconvenience this causes.

UPDATE - DATA ISSUE FOR WELLINGBOROUGH PROPERTIES NOTE - 26/02/2025 :

In order to obtain the corrected Wellingborough Billing Authority data that has now been corrected on VOA Find My Business Rates website, we have requested from our IT Data Supplier team an adhoc one off set of Epoch files to be generated and will be made available on Wednesday 05th March 2025.

PLEASE NOTE:

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Boundary Changes Guidance

There are four Billing Authorities that require changes to be applied to them from 1 Apr 2023. In order to identify records for these you will need to aggregate the records for the BA Codes that existed prior to 1 April 2023 as follows:

Cumberland (BA Code 0935 TBC) consists of:

Westmorland and Furness (BA Code 0940 TBC) consists of:

Somerset (BA Code 3335 TBC) consists of:

North Yorkshire (BA Code 2740 TBC) consists of:

There are two Billing Authorities that require changes to be applied to them from 1 Apr 2021. In order to identify records for these you will need to aggregate the records for the BA Codes that existed prior to 1 April 2021 as follows:

North Northamptonshire (BA Code 2840) consists of:

West Northamptonshire (BA Code 2845) consists of:

There is one Billing Authority that requires changes to be applied to it from 1 April 2019. In order to identify records for this Billing Authority you will need to aggregate the records for the BA Code that existed prior to 1 April 2019 as follows:

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BA Code 1260) consists of:

There are two Billing Authorities that require changes to be applied backdated to 01 April 1996. In order to identify records for these BA Codes as follows:

Carmarthenshire (BA Code 6825) consists of:

Powys (BA Code 6850) consists of:

Technical guidance

Our technical guidance contains detailed information about the data in our downloads and how the records in them are arranged. We have also included supplementary tables of important and useful codes and their descriptions to help improve the overall quality of the datasets.

Our technical guidance


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