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
- Check if your retail, hospitality or leisure business is eligible for business rates relief due to coronavirus (COVID-19)
- How domestic properties are assessed for Council Tax bands
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for local government
- Local government structure and elections
News and communications
- Government invites Cumbria, North Yorkshire and Somerset to submit locally-led proposals for unitary local government
- Invitations to submit proposals for unitary local government in Cumbria, North Yorkshire and Somerset
- Former SSI steelworks site to be redeveloped under full local control
- Call for evidence on 'Air Quality Partners' to support local authorities
Research and statistics
- Local authority revenue expenditure and financing England: 2019 to 2020 individual local authority data - outturn
- Local authority revenue expenditure and financing England: 2019 to 2020 provisional outturn
- Community Ophthalmic Services Statistics for Northern Ireland, Quarter 2 2020/21
- Local authority revenue expenditure and financing England: 2020 to 2021 budget
- Live tables on local government finance
Policy papers and consultations
- Reforming local government exit pay
- Review of local authority financial reporting and external audit: call for views
- 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