Sorry guys, completely OT, but I've just given myself a headache trying to work out some taxation law.

I've only just graduated from uni and I currently live with my parents so I've never had to pay council tax.

I'm now trying to move into a flat with 5 student friends on a joint rental contract - tbh i didnt even think about council tax because ive never done it before. Now 4 out of the 6 people secured the flat today with their deposits and signed the contract when they were also asked to give their student details to avoid council tax. Details I obviously dont have.

So what now, on a joint contract is council tax calculated based on everybody living in the house if one member is liable? on individual contracts would it only be me who has to pay? how do you know how much that would be?

Is it going to be completely unviable?

Sorry if noone knows the answer and I've spammed the board with random legal questions

pretty gutted though

[Edited on 25/3/09 by cd.thomson]

A lad lived with us (3 students 1 non student) he had to pay all the council tax as we were exempt and they wouldnt give him single occupancy disscount as we were living there so he had to pay all the tax on a 4 bed house which is alot as a detached 4 bed is in a high tax band

gutted

Not sure that's necessarily true - when Mrs D Beddows was doing her degree a year or so ago and I was in full time employment we got a council tax discount because of her full time student status........

You do need to pay council tax, but you may get a discount because most of them are students, though there is some rule about the type of shared house - there's an open shared house, and a shared house where each room is separately locked - if the latter then each room is eligible for its own tax, and may be free / v. cheap council tax. Otherwise it looks like you may be footing the bill for it...

There must be something about this on direct.gov...

HTH


vince

You will get a 25% discount off the full council tax rate so long as the others can prove their full-time student status. You will need to contact the local council to apply for this discount.

If there's only 1 non-student you will get the single-occupancy discount which means you pay 75% of the normal rate. I have seen this situation several times and this has alwyas been the case. If there are 2+ non-students, even in a 15 bedroom house, you will pay the full amount.

time to enrol on a part time course!

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time to enrol on a part time course!

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£80 a week inc all bills, rent and c.tax? If so thats still excellent. Do you get sole use of the double garage and outdoor hot tub etc as you pay the c.tax?