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Usually one person, called the liable person, is liable to pay council tax. Nobody under the age of 18 can be a liable person.
Usually, the person living in a property will be the liable person, but sometimes it will be the owner of the property who will be liable to pay.
The owner will be liable if…
Þ The property is in multiple occupation, for example, a house lived in by a number of people who all pay rent, but no-one is responsible for paying the whole of the rent; or
Þ The people who live in the property are all under the age of 18; or who are not entitled to claim benefits including council tax benefit.
When working out how many people live in a property, some people are not counted. These are called disregarded people. People are disregarded when they are:
Þ Aged 17 or under;
Þ Full-time students on a qualifying course of education;
Þ Student nurses/Project 2000 student nurses;
Þ Young people on government training schemes, apprentices, or foreign language assistants;
Þ School or college leavers still aged under 20 who have left school or college after 30 April. They will be disregarded until 1 November of the same year whether or not they take up employment;
Þ Aged 18 and someone is entitled to child benefit for them. This includes a school or college leaver in remunerative work, or a person in local authority care.
If you think that your landlord/lady should be paying the council tax or you think that you are entitled to a discount on the amount you pay, go to your Students’ Union, Local Authority or Citizens Advice Bureau.
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