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Services

• Check your Council Tax band

  Find out the Council Tax band for a property, register any changes to the property or challenge the band in England or Wales by looking up the property's address or postcode online

• Pay your Council Tax

  Pay Council Tax online or by other methods, like direct debit to your local council

• 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

• 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

• 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

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Guidance and regulation

• Start paying Council Tax
  • Detailed guide
  • 22 January 2016
  • Valuation Office Agency
• How domestic properties are assessed for Council Tax bands
  • Detailed guide
  • 13 February 2020
  • Valuation Office Agency
• Traffic signs manual
  • Guidance
  • 2 March 2020
  • Department for Transport
• The Blue Badge scheme: rights and responsibilities in England
  • Guidance
  • 9 July 2020
  • Department for Transport
• Abandoned vehicles: local authority responsibilities
  • Detailed guide
  • 30 November 2018
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

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News and communications

• First Past the Post to be introduced for all local mayoral and police and crime commissioner elections
  • 15 September 2021
  • Cabinet Office, Home Office, and Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  • Press release
• Boosting value for money in the council finance system
  • 28 July 2021
  • Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  • Press release
• Next steps for new unitary councils in Cumbria, North Yorkshire and Somerset
  • 21 July 2021
  • Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  • News story
• Environmental inequality must not be ignored
  • 20 July 2021
  • Environment Agency
  • News story
• Local Government Association annual conference 2021: Secretary of State's speech
  • 6 July 2021
  • Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  • Speech

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Research and statistics

• Local authority revenue expenditure and financing England: 2020 to 2021 individual local authority data - outturn
  • 21 October 2021
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • National statistics
• Local authority revenue expenditure and financing England: 2020 to 2021 provisional outturn
  • 21 October 2021
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • National statistics
• Collection rates for Council Tax and non-domestic rates in England, 2020 to 2021
  • 8 October 2021
  • Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government and Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • National statistics
• Live tables on local government finance
  • 16 September 2021
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  • Statistical data set
• National non-domestic rates 2020 to 2021 outturn - subset of provisional data
  • 8 September 2021
  • Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  • Official statistics

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Policy papers and consultations

• Business rates revaluation 2023: the central rating list
  • 16 August 2021
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  • Open consultation
  • Closing date 08 November 2021
• Consultation on allocation of £15 million to local bodies for audit
  • 29 July 2021
  • Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 18 May 2021
• Local audit framework: technical consultation
  • 28 July 2021
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  • Closed consultation
  • Date closed 22 September 2021
• Local authority financial sustainability and the section 114 regime
  • 21 October 2021
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  • Policy paper
• Local Authority Capital Finance Framework: planned improvements
  • 28 July 2021
  • Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• Transforming Cities Fund
  • 30 July 2021
  • Department for Transport
  • Transparency
• Highways maintenance funding allocations
  • 18 February 2021
  • Department for Transport
  • Transparency
• Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman annual report and accounts 2019 to 2020
  • 17 December 2020
  • Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman
  • Corporate report
• Schemes awarded the Local Highways Maintenance Challenge Fund
  • 28 February 2020
  • Department for Transport
  • Transparency
• NIO Equality Six Monthly Update January - June 2019
  • 13 December 2019
  • Northern Ireland Office
  • Transparency

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Organisations

• Department for Transport
• Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities
• Valuation Office Agency
• HM Treasury
• Cabinet Office

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• Traffic Commissioners for Great Britain
• Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
• Department for Education
• Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs
• Home Office
• Department of Health & Social Care
• Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland
• Ministry of Justice
• Department for Work & Pensions
• HM Revenue & Customs
• Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
• Government Actuary's Department
• HM Courts & Tribunals Service
• Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
• Office for Product Safety & Standards
• Office of the Secretary of State for Wales
• Northern Ireland Office
• Committee on Standards in Public Life
• Disclosure & Barring Service
• Government Digital Service
• Maritime & Coastguard Agency
• Bona Vacantia
• Government Legal Department
• Office of the Public Guardian
• Armed Forces' Pay Review Body
• Crown Commercial Service
• Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
• Government Equalities Office
• Lammy Review
• Marine Management Organisation
• The Oil and Pipelines Agency
• Planning Inspectorate
• Office of the Leader of the House of Commons

• Defence Infrastructure Organisation
• Innovate UK
• High Speed Two (HS2) Limited
• Biometrics Commissioner
• Environment Agency
• Probation Service
• Social Security Advisory Committee
• British Hallmarking Council
• Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation
• Competition and Markets Authority
• Highways England
• HM Land Registry
• Ofsted
• Single Source Regulations Office

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