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
People under the age of 18
People under the age of 18 years old is an exemption from paying council tax that can be applied If all persons living in the property are under 18.
Please note: you will need to apply for this exemption as this is not automatically awarded.
Who can apply?
Council tax only applies to people over the age of 18 years old. If there are only people under the age of 18 occupying the property, then you won't need to pay council tax until any person in the property becomes 18.
Once one or more of the residents living in the property are over the age of 18 this exemption will no longer be applicable.
Amount of discount you may be eligible for
100% council tax exemption is applicable if all persons living in the property are under 18 years of age.
We periodically review all exemptions and discounts to confirm eligibility.
How to apply
To apply for this discount, sign in or register on our Open Portal online account:
We kindly request you to submit the necessary supporting evidence for your application. Please be informed that failure to provide the requested documentation may result in the assessment of your application being delayed or rejected. We appreciate your prompt attention to this matter.
Please note: if you are awarded an exemption and the circumstances that led to that award change, you must tell us.
