Avoiding Council Tax

brightonman123

do jedi knights get a discount, too? i seem to recall Brighton had registered the largest 'force', on the last census...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2757067.stm

and

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/CCI/nugget.asp?ID=297&Pos=&ColRank=2&Rank=1000

"About sixteen per cent of the UK population stated that they had no religion. This category included agnostics, atheists, heathens and those who wrote Jedi.."


(sadgitmode) (need a light sabre logo here..fwoom, fwoom ;-)
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SABSAB_2

My brother currently lives in my parents house alone, they live abroad but decided to still pay the council tax for themselves as they come back all summer every summer, he has a job but does not pay any council tax. Should he be paying council tax? and If he registers to vote will he automatically start being charged council tax?

seven-day-weekend

SABSAB wrote: »

My brother currently lives in my parents house alone, they live abroad but decided to still pay the council tax for themselves as they come back all summer every summer, he has a job but does not pay any council tax. Should he be paying council tax? and If he registers to vote will he automatically start being charged council tax?

As far as I know the Council themselves decide who is liable for Council Tax, once they are given full details,. There is only one lot of CT to be paid on the property If your brother registers as living there he may even be liable to pay less as he can get a discount for living on his own.

There is nothing to stop him being the registered CT payer but your parents providing the money, if that's what they want to do.

In my own situation, we live abroad and our house is lived in by our son and one lodger. The Council have decided that my son and the lodger are the CT payers -but only one lot of CT between them. It doesn't matter which one of them actually pay the bill or whether they go half each.