Council Tax

[helsbels666]

Can anyone inform me if students are exempt but qualifu 2 months prior to their rented accomodation lease being up are they liable to pay council tax for those two months (even if they are not working)???

[dzug]

Don't know the full answer, but one exemption is:

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

Would guess that if they are over 21 they pay but ICBW.

[buildersmate]

Students are exempt from Council Tax as long as they continue to be students and ALL the people in the house are students. Remember that the tax is levied on the property not the person(s). The Local Authority will exempt the property if all the occupants demonstrate they are students by filling in some bureaucratic form.

What you may be talking about is the gap between June and August when most courses have finished (graduated) and August when a typical lease of 12 months ends, having been started the previous September when the academic year started. This is dodgy ground if some students have started working, but probably OK if no-one is working. My son got away with it.

[helsbels666]

Yes thanks buildersmate that is exactly what i was talking about.

when the course ends but the lease doesn't.