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
Religious communities
Members of religious communities can be awarded a council tax discount.
You will need to apply for this discount as this is not automatically granted.
Who can apply?
If you are a member of a religious community, whose main occupation is prayer, contemplation, education, the relief of suffering or a range of these.
You must:
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have no capital or income (except a pension from a former employer).
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depend on the religious community for your material needs.
Amount of discount you may be eligible for
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25% discount if you live with another adult.
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50% discount if you live alone or only with others who qualify.
We periodically review all exemptions and discounts to confirm eligibility.
How do I apply?
To apply for this discount, sign in or register on our Open Portal online account:
We need the following evidence
Written confirmation from an authorised representative of your religious community that you are a member, whose main occupation consists of two or more of, prayer, contemplation, education and the relief of suffering. You have no income (apart from a pension from a previous employer or capital) and depend on the religious community for your material needs.
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 a discount and the circumstances that led to that discount change, you must tell us.
