Council Tax -when to start paying

bluebottle23

A friend of mine Graduated last week.

Can anyone tell me if he is due to start paying council tax as of the day he graduates or is it the day of the end of the official university year?

Please feel free to move this to a more suitable forum

CIS

His course ends on the day shown on his student certificate - from that day he is liable for any council tax due.

bluebottle23

CIS wrote: »

His course ends on the day shown on his student certificate - from that day he is liable for any council tax due.

Just text him - he doesnt have such a certificate that he knows of.

And I cant think of one when I was at Uni either (same uni)

Gingernutmeg

It's not a certificate as such, it's an exemption letter that you should have got when you registered each academic year (although obviously you won't get one if you're on campus). In order to have been exempt from council tax during his course, if he was living off-campus then at some point he will have had to give this letter to his landlord or send it off to the council (this is what we had to do, then they returned it). Mine and OH's certificates said that our courses ended in 'June '07', and so we were liable for council tax from the 1st of June. We got a bill and payment schedule a couple of weeks before we had to start paying, I'm surprised your friend hasn't had anything through yet. It may be though that if he's living in a shared student flat/house with a contract that ends soon then the council assume that he's moving back home or into his own accommodation and so don't send out the bills and info to the people who are in that property - we were living in a private flat so obviously our contract just carried on. If your friend is planning on staying in his current accommodation then he needs to inform the landlord and the council ... which could work out to be expensive for him if he ends up liable for 75% of the council tax for the whole house ...

CIS

I'm surprised your friend hasn't had anything through yet. It may be though that if he's living in a shared student flat/house with a contract that ends soon then the council assume that he's moving back home or into his own accommodation and so don't send out the bills and info to the people who are in that property

Its not that generally which stops bills going out - we have around 20 processing staff dealing with 270,000 + population and around 30000 of these are students.

There's just not enough staff to chase up the students when their course ends and bill them.

bluebottle23

cheers - will tell him to phone the uni. Both him and his flatmate finished uni last week and know they are due to start paying.... just arent sure when from