Billing authorities

Submit your national non-domestic rates (NNDR) claims

Use this service to:

  • submit your NNDR claims for maintained schools and academies to the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA)
  • make adjustments to previous claims

You must submit your initial claims between 1 April and 22 May of the current financial year. The financial year runs from 1 April to 31 March.

If you need to make any adjustments to claims for the current financial year or previous 6 years, you must submit these during the reconciliation period which runs from 23 May to 31 January.

NNDR claim and payment dates

Making or adjusting your claims

Download the current submission template and save your completed file as a CSV file type before uploading it using this service. Visit the National non-domestic rates: guidance for billing authorities for information about completing the template.

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Before you start

DfE Sign-in

You need to have an account with the DfE sign-in service attached to your billing authority. If you haven't used DfE sign-in before you'll need to create an account.

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