Parishes and other local precepting authorities in England: 2014 to 2015
Statistics on individual local parishes and the amount of Council Tax collected on their behalf by billing authorities.
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in England there are over 10,000 local precepting authorities; the vast majority are civil parishes, and there are 17 charter trustees and 2 Temples of London
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of these, 8,813 parishes, charter trustees and Temples (local precepting authorities) instructed their billing authority to collect Council Tax on their behalf in 2014 to 2015, an increase of 8 from 2013 to 2014
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the average Band D Council Tax added to bills by parishes in 2014 to 2015 is £52.37, which is an increase of £2.14, or 4.3% on 2013 to 2014
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the total Council Tax collected on behalf of parishes in 2014 to 2015 is £389 million, which represents 1.6% of the total council requirement for England of £23.6 billion
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precepting parishes cover 7.4 million Band D equivalent properties, the equivalent of 46% of all Band D equivalent properties in England
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242 of the 326 billing authorities in England have parishes, one more than in 2013 to 2014; the number of parishes that require the collection of Council Tax within a local authority ranges from 1 to 239