# The Building Safety Levy (England) Regulations 2025, Regulation 68: Provision of payment information to the Secretary of State


(1) A collecting authority must prepare a building safety levy return for each financial quarter.
(2) A building safety levy return relating to a financial quarter must be provided to the Secretary of State within 30 days of the end of that quarter.
(3) A building safety levy return must include the following information—
(a) the total of the notified building safety levy amounts, for the financial quarter, charged at the area rate shown in column 2 of the table in Schedule 3;
(b) the total of the notified building safety levy amounts, for the financial quarter, charged at the area rate shown in column 3 of the table in Schedule 3;
(c) the total of the notified building safety levy amounts, for all preceding financial quarters, charged at the area rate shown in column 2 of the table in Schedule 3, excluding—
(i) amounts stated in levy liability notices that were given but subsequently cancelled whether in the financial quarter to which the return relates or a preceding financial quarter, and
(ii) amounts paid in respect of building safety levy in the current and all preceding quarters;
(d) the total of the notified building safety levy amounts, for all preceding financial quarters, charged at the area rate shown in column 3 of the table in Schedule 3, excluding—
(i) amounts stated in levy liability notices that were given but subsequently cancelled whether in the financial quarter to which the return relates or a preceding financial quarter, and
(ii) amounts paid in respect of building safety levy in the current and all preceding quarters;
(e) the total amount of payments in respect of building safety levy made to the collecting authority during the financial quarter;
(f) the total number of payments made by the collecting authority, during the financial quarter, under regulations 65 and 66 and the total amount of those payments;
(g) the total amount of administrative expenses, as defined in regulation 69, incurred by the collecting authority during the financial quarter;
(h) the total amount in respect of building safety levy to be paid by the collecting authority to the Secretary of State in relation to the financial quarter;
(i) the total number of levy information spot checks carried out in the financial quarter and the number of those spot checks to which regulation 51 applies.
(4) In this regulation, a “notified building safety levy amount” for a financial quarter is an amount of building safety levy stated in a levy liability notice that—
(a) is given by the collecting authority during the financial quarter, and
(b) is not cancelled before the end of that financial quarter.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348273779/regulation/68 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-building-safety-levy-england-regulations-2025/regulation-68
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