Qualifying for a discount
A full Council Tax bill is based on at least 2 adults living in a home.
You'll get 25% off your bill if you count as an adult for Council Tax and live on your own.
You'll also get a discount if you live with people who don't count as adults for Council Tax.
Apply for a Council Tax discount - GOV.UK website
Who doesn't count?
These people are not counted as adults for Council Tax:
- children under 18
- people on apprentice schemes
- 18 and 19-year-olds in full-time education
- full-time college and university students
- young people under 25 who get funding from the Skills Funding Agency or Young People's Learning Agency
- student nurses
- foreign language assistants registered with the British Council
- people with a severe mental disability
- live-in carers who look after someone who isn't their partner, spouse or child
- diplomats
To work out if you should get a Council Tax discount:
- Count the number of adults who live in your home as their main home.
- Discount anyone in the list above.
- If you're left with 1 person who counts as an adult, your Council Tax bill will be reduced by 25%.
- If this is your main home and you're left with no-one who counts as an adult, your bill will be reduced by 50% - second homes and empty properties have different rules.
Your bill doesn't show a discount
Write to your council if there's no discount listed and you think you should get one.
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