I am a full time student, which means I am exempt from paying council tax, but I am about to rent a house with two of my friends who are both working full time.
When working out rent they worked council tax into the price, but I dont pay this.
How does it work? Is there a set price that we are meant to pay on the house and we have to split it between the 3 of us or do we each pay for our own room or what?
2006-12-26 07:35:57 · 20 answers · asked by Junimond 3 in Business & Finance ➔ Taxes ➔ United Kingdom
I am a full time student who lives with two full time workers.
Because you have more than one full time worker in the house there is absolutely no discount on the overall Council Tax. However as a household you (as an individual) are technically exempt for paying anything towards it.
This is all well and good but you will then need to tell your flatmates they need to cough up and pay 50% each rather than you sharing it as 33.3% each.
If you contact your local Council they will be able to confirm all this and provide you with the necessary form if you do decide to be offciailly exempt.
The question is... will your mates be happy with this!!
2006-12-28 03:09:57 · answer #1 · answered by curly_krill 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't matter how many people are living in a property for the council tax unless there is only one person. As a student you don't have to pay so if it were you and one friend who is working in the place there would be a 25% discount available.
Unfortunately there are two workers in your accomodation so afraid you are out of luck as the property still requires full council tax to be paid.
Council tax consists of two parts, the property and the inhabitants. So you could ask your flatmates to divided the council tax into the two parts and you pay a third of the property but none of the inhabitants and they then pay a third each of the property and half each of the inhabitants.
Best to sit down and discuss the matter calmly rather than crying foul. They maybe willing to adjust rents if you approach the matter in a calm reasoned manner.
2006-12-28 14:18:48 · answer #2 · answered by Alex MacGregor 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By law, you are exempt from council tax only if ALL of you who live together are full time students. In other words, if, for instance, 5 people live in a property, and 5 of them are full time students, then one does not have to pay the council tax. If, however, 4 out of those 5 are students, and only 1 is a professional, you become liable to pay the concil tax, because in that case your household cannot be classified as 'student' household for council tax exemption purposes.
2006-12-28 08:59:05 · answer #3 · answered by Gemma 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Council tax is a set amount per year per house.
People can be exempt under certain circumstances, for example if you're a full time student, as you are.
If there is only one person in the house that is supposed to pay council tax then they do now have to pay it all. It is reduced to either 50% or 75%, I forget which.
But once there are two or more people eligible to pay council tax it is 100%.
As you are a full time student living with two people are are eligible for paying council tax you will need to pay 100% for the house. But you are exempt, so the other two will need to pay it between them. Whether you pay anything is up to you, if you want to help them out with the cost then do so, but you're not under any legal obligation to help them out.
2006-12-26 07:54:52 · answer #4 · answered by reddragon105 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The tenancy agreement is irrelevant as far as your status is concerned. It tells you that the tenant is liable for council tax - that means that the owner is not paying it. You deal directly with the council on this one.
As a full time student you are entitled to total exemption - therefore you do not pay any council tax. Your flatmates will share the council tax bill for the property between them.
However you will have to apply to your council for exemption - they will provide a form which your college or university will sign and stamp indicating that you are an enrolled full time student. Once this is handed in and processed, you will not be liable for council tax.
The flatmates, if they fill in a council tax benefit form, will be assessed separately depending on their income and may or may not be entitled to council tax benefit to assist with the cost.
2006-12-29 00:17:36 · answer #5 · answered by Allasse 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi
I'm not sure if this is still the same procedure, but, when I was at uni if you had a full time student in your house you didnt have to pay council tax, even if some of you were working. We had 5 students and 1 worker - call your local council and ask them
Either way - YOU are exempt, so your other 2 housemates should pay more - they earn more!
2006-12-26 07:45:30 · answer #6 · answered by the cat 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, you are still exempt from paying anything (ie the person bit AND the building bit), if you all comunailly rent the house, then as far as your landlord is concerned you are all responsible for the rent / bills / counil tax. if this is the case - what you can do is submit your Council Tax Exemption form to your council to get a discount on the amount payable, then its up to you to decide with your friends what every one is paying.
However I study computing NOT LAW!! i only know that because im in this situation this year ! - contact your local council tax unit - they are generally very helpfull about this kind of thing !
incidently you have to submit your CTE form anyway - just noticed that !
good luck!
2006-12-26 07:43:58 · answer #7 · answered by Steven L 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you live with people who work, the household is classed as tax payers and you'll need to pay your share. Only property occupied wholly by students is exempt, or by persons under 18 years of age. A 25% discount is available where two or more persons reside in the property and all but one of them is a sare disregarded for discount purposes, ie 3 students and 1 council tax payer.
2006-12-28 03:56:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure if Joker meant there have to be more then five of you or not. There's no limit to how many people live there, if you have separate tenancy agreements to rent a room or part of the house, and not a joint tenancy for all eight of you to rent the whole house together, the property would be classed as HMO - a House in Multiple Occupation, and the landlord would be liable. He would pay a 75% charge . If you have a joint tenancy agreement between the eight of you, you have all rented the house together, then you will be the liable party and you will receive the 25% discount as the only chargeable party. Find out if the property is HMO and make sure the landlord is happy for you to move in. Lots of student landlords with HMO properties will not take non-students because it means they have to pay council tax.
2016-05-23 08:27:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Council Tax is a household tax, so charged per h/h, so not divided three ways, etc.
As a full-time student, you are 'disregarded'.
Council Tax is based on two adults or more, and is 50% person, 50% property.
If, say for example you lived with one other person, a non-student, you would get 25% discount (equivalent of single person discount). If you're all students, you pay nothing.
As your situation is one student, and two non-students, you won't get any discount, because there are two non-disregarded people.
Hope this makes sense!
2006-12-26 07:49:17 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋