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
Single person discount
Council tax charge is calculated, based on two adults over the age of 18 years old living in a property.
Your council tax bill does not increase if there are more than two adult residents within your household but may be reduced if there is only one person being the sole or main resident. They may be eligible for a council tax single person discount which is a reduction/discount of 25% off the property, water and sewerage charge.
You will need to apply for this discount as it is not automatically awarded.
Who can apply?
If you are the only adult living in the property,18 or over then you would be eligible for this discount.
Amount of discount you may be eligible for
25% single person discount (inclusive of water and sewerage charge).
How do I apply?
To apply for this discount, sign in or register on our Open Portal account:
What evidence do I need to submit?
If someone has moved out of the property, confirmation of their new residence and the date residency ceased would be required.
If you're reporting a bereavement, a copy of the death certificate.
We periodically review all council tax exemptions and discounts to confirm eligibility.
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.
If you are awarded a discount and the circumstances that led to that discount change, you must tell us.
