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
Manse or similar dwelling
This applies to a property, such as a manse, which is no one’s sole or main residence is exempt indefinitely if the property is being held by, or on behalf of, any religious body to be available for a minister of religion to occupy as a residence from which to perform the duties of their office. The property may remain furnished.
You will need to apply for this exemption/discount as this is not automatically awarded.
Amount of discount you may be eligible for
100% council tax exemption, inclusive of water and sewerage charges will remain in effect until the minister takes up residence in the dwelling.
How do I apply?
To apply for this exemption, 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 the assessment of your application being delayed or rejected.
If you are awarded exemption and the circumstances that led to that exemption change, you must tell us.
