Discounts and exemptions
Contents
- Introduction
- Single person discount
- Student
- Severely mentally impaired person (SMI)
- Care leavers
- Carer
- Apprentice, youth trainee or skill seeker
- Disability banding relief
- Person in hospital or care home
- Person in detention or prison
- People who provide care or who are cared for
- Person for whom child benefit is payable
- People under the age of 18
- Unoccupied and unfurnished property
- Unoccupied and furnished property discount (not a second home)
- Changes for second homes
- Estate of deceased person
- Spouse, civil partner, or dependent of foreign student
- School leaver
- Religious communities
- Manse or similar dwelling
- Dwelling repossessed by a mortgage lender
- Job-related dwellings
- Occupation prohibited by law/dwellings empty under statute
- Trustee in bankruptcy
- Voluntary care worker
- Visiting forces accommodation
- Ukraine refugees
Job-related dwellings
A job-related dwelling may attract a discount from council tax if you live in tied accommodation. This is housing that you are required to live in a second home by your employer as a condition of your job.
You will need to apply for this discount as this is not automatically granted.
Who can apply?
If you use the property as your second home and have a main residence somewhere else and you are:
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required to live in a second home by your employment (for example if you are a publican and need to live in other licensed premises as a tenant of a brewery); or
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provided the second home by your employer because it is required for your employment (for example a live in teacher or caretaker).
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You have left a property unoccupied because you must live elsewhere as part of your job.
To qualify you will be required to provide documentary evidence from your employer along with your council tax notice for your main alternative residence.
You do not qualify for this discount if you are renting a property because you are working temporarily in North Lanarkshire.
Amount of discount you may be eligible for
If you qualify for this discount you could receive up to 50% off your council tax property charge. This discount does not reduce your water and sewerage charges.
We periodically review all discounts to confirm eligibility.
How do I apply?
To apply for this discount, sign in or register on our Open Portal online account:
Please submit the necessary supporting evidence for your application. Failure to provide the requested documentation may result in your application being rejected.
If you are granted a discount and the circumstances that led to that discount change, you must tell us.
