Local government
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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
- Bolton: local restrictions
- Start paying Council Tax
- How domestic properties are assessed for Council Tax bands
- Check if your retail, hospitality or leisure business is eligible for business rates relief due to coronavirus (COVID-19)
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for local government
News and communications
- £2 million fund for local action on air quality
- New powers and framework to help contain coronavirus (COVID-19) locally
- Government confirms allocations of £500 million additional funding for councils
- Local Government Association annual conference 2020: Secretary of State's speech
Research and statistics
- Live tables on local government finance
- Local authority financial reporting and external audit: independent review
- Collection rates for Council Tax and non-domestic rates in England, 2019 to 2020
- COVID-19: business rates reliefs by parliamentary constituency
- Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2020 to 2021
Policy papers and consultations
- Review of local authority financial reporting and external audit: call for views
- Reforming local government exit pay
- Local government pension scheme: changes to the local valuation cycle and management of employer risk
- Local Government Pension Scheme – amendments to the statutory underpin
- Proposed merger of the Northumberland and Tyne and Wear pension funds
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- Schemes awarded the Local Highways Maintenance Challenge Fund
- Access Fund: funding
- NIO Equality Six Monthly Update January - June 2019
- Twenty-fifth meeting of the Libraries Taskforce
- Data share pilot between HMRC and local authorities (T to Z)
Organisations
- Defence Infrastructure Organisation
- Innovate UK
- High Speed Two (HS2) Limited
- Biometrics Commissioner
- National Probation Service
- Social Security Advisory Committee
- British Hallmarking Council
- Competition and Markets Authority
- Environment Agency
- Highways England
- HM Land Registry
- Ofsted
- Single Source Regulations Office