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Do i have to pay council tax?

How much council tax would I pay if i am the only non-student in a house?

  • I am moving into a rented house in September with three friends. If we were all students none of us would have to pay council tax. However, I am currently in my final year of uni and will be edning education and enterring the work force next year thus I have to pay council tax, but my house-mates dont. How much would I have to pay? Do I Have to pay council tax for the whole house? or just my share?

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    The council works out council tax according to the property and what it is worth, there are a number of bands. Band A is the cheapest and it goes up from there. You're right, students don't have to pay council tax, and because you will be the only non-student you will be responsible for paying the bill. As you will be the only one you qualify for a single-occupancy discount of 25%, which is a small thing to be grateful for I guess! My non-student partner and I live together and I am currently studying my post-grad degree. We get a 25% discount, but we split the council tax bill anyway as it doesn't seem fair to make her pay it all! PS I'd have a word with your house-mates-to-be and ask if they'd mind contributing :o)

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You have to pay 75% of what council tax would normally cost for the whole house. You get a 25% discount if you live by yourself or are the only person eligible to pay for it. It doesn't matter how many other people live in the house, just that there's one eligible person. Technically, although they're students, as soon as anybody in the house needs to pay it, you're all equally liable to. So if you didn't, they would have to because they live in a house that has to pay it if you've all got the same interest in the property (ie you're all renting). Because I'm the owner of my property and my boyfriend just lives with me without any interest in the house, I'm the person that's responsible for paying even though I'm the student, because I've got a higher responsibility than him. But I wouldn't suggest that you make your friends pay even if they are technically as liable as you because that's unfair!

Lucinda L

As far as I know you only get a discount for single occupancy so I think you will be liable for the whole amount,hope your degree wasn't in english

john_welsh1100

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