Editorial Process
Every figure on PlainCouncilTax traces back to a named public source, computed by documented pipelines. PlainCouncilTax publishes under one organizational byline rather than personal ones: the publisher is accountable for the data framing, methodology, and corrections you read here.
Download the UK Band D council-tax extract cited on this page: councils.csv (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Every figure published on PlainCouncilTax is traced back to its official public source and computed by deterministic pipelines, not hand-entered. Our methodology sets out exactly how each dataset is sourced, computed, and refreshed, and the about page explains how we handle corrections when a reader flags something. The byline below is the publishing organization itself, not an individual writer: these pages are generated from documented pipelines rather than individually reported, so accountability for the framing and for correcting it sits with the publisher.
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PlainCouncilTax is an independent data-journalism portal that focuses on UK council tax data sourced from the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) and local billing authority publications. The editorial process compiles and verifies public council tax band lists and annual charge tables for households across England, Scotland, and Wales. The team does not accept payment from entities it covers to ensure unbiased reporting.
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PlainCouncilTax is a data-journalism publisher: we compile public datasets, verify them against their official sources, and present them in plain language. Editorial standards, sourcing, and how we handle corrections are described on our about and methodology pages.