Guidance

Valuation Office Agency: Billing Authority submissions standards

How Billing Authorities can assist the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) in updating rating lists and the information they need to provide.

• From: HM Revenue & Customs and Valuation Office Agency
• Published: 1 September 2014
• Last updated: 24 November 2022
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  1. 24 November 2022

     Two new PDF's

  2. 1 December 2020

     Updated Welsh PDF.

  3. 5 October 2020

     The Welsh version has been added to this page.

  4. 4 March 2020

     The 'BARs submissions standards' attachment has been updated.

  5. 29 May 2018

     The document within this guidance page has been updated.

  6. 7 February 2018

     BARs Submissions Standards file has been superseded.

  7. 19 September 2017

     "BARs Submission Standards" has been updated.

  8. 20 June 2017

     The 'billing authority report best practice' has now been replaced with the 'billing authority submissions standards'.

  9. 1 September 2014

     First published.

This publication was withdrawn on 2 July 2026

This guidance is no longer current and has been replaced by new guidance which is sent directly to Billing Authorities.

If you haven’t received the new guidance, you can email laengagement@hmrc.gov.uk.

Documents

BARs submissions standards

PDF, 532 KB, 27 pages

BARs submissions standards - Welsh

PDF, 549 KB, 27 pages

Details

This guide sets out the information Billing Authorities (BAs) need to submit with a report to the VOA.

The submissions standards are to enable the VOA and BAs to work more effectively together in maintaining the local taxation lists.