dont forget about council tax

funkymonkey

OMG im so excited after just remembering that if you pay your council tax by monthly DD then you get two months off and that jan 1st will be my last payment! which means another £100 to my creditors!

- also just noticed that anglian water and essex and suffolk water are the same so thats another £50

redballoon_2

ohh yes!!!! i forgot about that too!!!

And don't forget if you live on your own you are entitled to a 25% discount!

funkymonkey

or if you or your partner is a student you get a discount too. especially good when i am a fully paid nursing student on 15K a year

xnikkix

Funkymonkey - is your name on the mortgage? My boyfriend is moving into a flat very soon, if I move in with him what is the discount likely to be as I'm a student? My name won't be on the mortgage.

Thanks in advance!

Nikki

:xmastree:

intel

Yipeee and everyone pays it and gets less services Merry Xmas Suckers...




Dont take it personal please....

funkymonkey

well we dont have a mortgage we rent but, it doesnt matter whos name is on the mortgage. my sister is a student and both her and her husbands name is on mortgage but she gets 25% off. once you have your letter from uni stating you are entitled to the discount then you can get it. for example (and this should probably be in the student thread but hey what the hell)

Man + Women or Man + Man women + women etc = 100% council tax

one of the two becomes a student. council remove student from the council tax register (and not electoral roll) which leaves

Man on his own who as a single person living there (in the eyes of the council) gets 25% off.

this is not bearing into account people get council tax benefits etc.

CharleneUK

I overpaid this year and got £62 refund!!

rchddap1

Good for you. I'm looking forward to my 2 months of not paying....but the savings will go towards my next car service as it will need a new timing belt (ouch)

thesealeyboy

Speaking of council tax, i noticed that once again the papers are talking about an increase. Yet many people fail to realise that this has already happened in Wales and very little fuss was made. My payments this year are £84 a month (thats with my 25% discount for living on my own, will go up to £113 when my GF moves in sometime next year) compared with something like £65 last year....

It's interesting to know what services you Council Tax actually pays for, and in my case I am paying for things that I am either not entitled to or do not apply to me, ie recycling - im too far out of the way (yeah, i live in the sticks) for them to collect my recyclable materials, yet the wagon drives past my house :mad: and streetlighting as well, the first two street lights I come to when leaving my house don't work!