Local government
Services
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Check your Council Tax band
Find out the Council Tax band for a property in England, Scotland or Wales by looking up the property's postcode online
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Pay your Council Tax
Pay Council Tax online or by other methods, like direct debit to your local council
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Council Tax
Your Council Tax bill - how to work it out, who has to pay, discounts and exemptions for students and disabled people, second homes, empty properties, paying the bill
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Find and check your business rates valuation
How to check the rateable value of your business property - compare it with other properties, request changes to your valuation and challenge the business rates you've been charged
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Apply for Council Tax Reduction
Apply to your local council for Council Tax Reduction if you're on a low income or benefits - this has replaced Council Tax Benefit
Guidance and regulation
- Start paying Council Tax
- How domestic properties are assessed for Council Tax bands
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): Organised events guidance for local authorities
- Check if your retail, hospitality or leisure business is eligible for business rates relief due to coronavirus (COVID-19)
- Abandoned vehicles: local authority responsibilities
News and communications
- New guidance on safe use of council offices
- COVID-19: Letter to council leaders on the future of remote meetings
- Secretary of State statement: Liverpool City Council
- COVID-secure election campaigning will go ahead
- New measures to allow proxy voting in local elections for those self-isolating with coronavirus
Research and statistics
- Live tables on Council Tax
- Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2021 to 2022
- National non-domestic rates collected by councils in England: forecast for 2021 to 2022
- Live tables on local government finance
- Understanding towns in England and Wales: population and demographic analysis
Policy papers and consultations
- Local authority remote meetings: call for evidence
- Local government pension scheme: changes to the local valuation cycle and management of employer risk
- Reforming local government exit pay
- Local authority financial reporting and external audit: government response to the Redmond review
- Business rate retention and non-domestic rates 2019 to 2020
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- Highways maintenance funding allocations
- Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman annual report and accounts 2019 to 2020
- Schemes awarded the Local Highways Maintenance Challenge Fund
- Access Fund: funding
- NIO Equality Six Monthly Update January - June 2019
Organisations
- Defence Infrastructure Organisation
- Innovate UK
- High Speed Two (HS2) Limited
- Biometrics Commissioner
- National Probation Service
- Social Security Advisory Committee
- British Hallmarking Council
- Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation
- Competition and Markets Authority
- Environment Agency
- Highways England
- HM Land Registry
- Ofsted
- Single Source Regulations Office