Council tax discount

The discount will be:-

• 25 per cent if there is one adult counted as living in the property (a single person’s discount)

• 50 per cent if everyone in the property is disregarded and therefore no-one is counted as living there.

The following people are disregarded when counting the number of people living in a property for the purposes of a discount:[1]

• people aged 18 or under for whom child benefit is still payable

• recent school and college leavers who are under 20

• students up to age 20 studying up to Scottish Higher National Certificate or equivalent

• Care leavers

• foreign language assistants

• full time student attending college or university [2]

• a person with diplomatic, Commonwealth or consular privilege or immunity

• spouse or dependants of foreign students

• apprentices

• youth trainees

• people in prison or detention

• people who are mentally impaired, if they're claiming certain benefits

• certain carers

• hospital patients

• people in care homes, private hospitals and hostels providing a high level of care

• members of international headquarters and defence organisations and their dependants

• members of visiting forces

• members of religious communities

• people who are in the UK under the Homes for Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme, where the accommodation is provided by an approved sponsor [3]

• people who are in the UK under one of the following schemes, where the accommodation is provided with no payment in return: [4]

  • the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme

  • the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy

  • the Community Sponsorship Scheme

  • the UK Resettlement Scheme

  • the Vulnerable Children’s Resettlement Scheme

  • the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme