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Scotland's Chief Statistician today published Council Tax Collection Statistics 2008-09.

The publication includes Council Tax (CT) collection figures by Scottish Local Authorities for the financial year 2008-09 and previous years. The key points are:

• In 2008-09, for Scotland as a whole, the total amount of Council Tax billed (excluding Council Tax Benefit) was £1.959 billion. Of this total, £1.850 billion was collected by March 31, 2009
• The provisional Scotland total in-year CT collection rate for 2008-09 was 94.4 per cent, a 0.2 percentage point increase from the previous year
• Between 1993-94 and 2008-09, the overall total amount of Council Tax billed in Scotland was £22.359 billion, of which £21.457 billion, or 96 per cent was collected by March 31, 2009
• Provisional in-year CT collection rates for 2008-09 ranged from 90 per cent to 97.6 per cent
• These provisional figures suggest that 13 out of 32 councils have improved on their 2007-08 in-year CT collection rate figures published by Audit Scotland. One council showed the same collection rate. The remaining 18 councils showed slight decreases, with 11 of these remaining above the Scotland average

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