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
Trustee in bankruptcy
Council tax exemption will be applicable in cases where a trustee in bankruptcy takes over the ownership of a property as part of a bankrupt person's assets.
You will need to apply for this exemption as this is not automatically granted.
Amount of discount you may be eligible for
100% council tax exemption.
This exemption can be awarded for an unlimited period of time until the property is sold or ownership is changed.
We need the following evidence
Confirmation in writing from the trustee confirming that the property has been taken over as part of a bankrupt person's assets.
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 an exemption and the circumstances that led to that exemption change, you must tell us.
