council tax question

slopemaster

If someone lives alone and gets the 25% rebate, what happens if they take in a lodger who is a student and therefore exempt?
Do they still get the discount?
And what if they have a student living there, but only in the holiodays?

Gareteful if anyone knows the answer

verbyl.belch

slopemaster wrote: »

If someone lives alone and gets the 25% rebate, what happens if they take in a lodger who is a student and therefore exempt?
Do they still get the discount?
And what if they have a student living there, but only in the holiodays?

Gareteful if anyone knows the answer

I'm pretty sure you'll still get the 25% rebate. At least that's what my old housemate said when he stayed living with us after leaving uni. HTH.

verbyl.belch

Yup - taken from here: http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/index/life/tax/council_tax.htm#Propertiesexemptfromcounciltax

Discounts

If only one adult lives in a property, they will get a 25% discount on the council tax bill. When working out how many people live in a property, some people are not counted. These are called disregarded people. If everyone who lives in the property is disregarded, there will still be a council tax bill, but there will be a 50% discount. People are disregarded when they are:

• aged 17 or under
• living in the property temporarily and for whom this is not their normal home
• prisoners or people in detention awaiting deportation or under mental health legislation
• people who are severely mentally impaired
• full-time students on a qualifying course of education, including student nurses
• a spouse, civil partner or a dependant of a student who is a non British Citizen and who is not allowed under immigration rules, either to work in the UK or claim benefit
• young people on government training schemes and some apprentices
• living in a hostel which provides care or treatment because of a person’s old age, physical or mental disability, past or present alcohol or drug dependence or past or present mental illness
• living in a bail or probation hostel
• care workers and some live-in carers
• staying in a hostel or night shelter, for example, in a Salvation Army or Church Army hostel
• school or college leavers still aged under 20 who have left school or college after 30 April. They will be disregarded until 1 November of the same year whether or not they take up employment
• aged 18 and someone is entitled to Child Benefit for them
• members of a religious community
• members of visiting armed forces and their dependants.

taxi97w

An aside:- you're not getting a 25% rebate, your paying 75% of the full amount.

Governmental euphamism at it's best IMO.

slopemaster

Thanks for that

CIS

You will get still get a 25% single person discount whilst the other occ is a F/T student for council tax purposes. You need to declare to the council that the occ is living with you and supply a copy of the student certificate that the university provided them with.