Students & council tax

Full-time students are not included when adding up the number of occupiers of a dwelling for the purposes of determining if a discount is to be granted.

If all but one of the occupiers is a student, a 25% discount is granted on the council tax bill.  If all the occupiers are students, the dwelling is completely exempt from council tax.

• Definition of a student
• Foreign language assistant
• Full-time course of education
• Qualifying course of education
• Download a student discount application form (PDF 100k)

 

 

Definition of a student

To qualify as a student for council tax purposes, a person must either be:

(a) a foreign language assistant, or

(b) Undertaking a full-time course of education, or

(c) Undertaking a qualifying course of education.

 

Foreign language assistant

The person must be registered with the Central Bureau for Educational Visits & Exchanges and be appointed as a foreign language assistant at a school or other educational institution in Great Britain.

 

Full-time course of education

The person must be enrolled for the purpose of attending a full-time course with a prescribed educational establishment. A full-time course is one which:

• subsists for at least 1 academic year
• requires attendance for at least 24 weeks in each year
• requires study, tuition or work experience for an average of 21 hours per week.

 

Qualifying course of education

The person must be:

• Under 20 years old
• Not undertaking a course of full-time education

The course must:

• be for more than 3 months
• be for more than 12 hours per week
• not be a course of higher education
• not be a correspondence course
• not be undertaken in connection with a job
• involve tuition/studies between 8am and 5.30pm

Download a student disregard application form (PDF 100k)

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