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
- Business rates: expanded retail discount 2021 to 2022 - local authority guidance
- Welcome Back Fund
- The Blue Badge scheme: rights and responsibilities in England
News and communications
- Government publishes update to audit review response
- Elections must be free of voter fraud
- COVID-19: Remote meetings High Court judgment - letter to council leaders
- New guidance on safe use of council offices
- COVID-19: Letter to council leaders on the future of remote meetings
Research and statistics
- Local authority capital expenditure and receipts in England: 2020 to 2021 provisional outturn and 2021 to 2022 forecast
- Local authority capital expenditure and financing in England: 2021 to 2022 individual local authority data forecast
- Live tables on local government finance
- National non-domestic rates collected by councils in England: 2019 to 2020
- Local authority revenue expenditure and financing England: 2019 to 2020 final outturn
Policy papers and consultations
- Amendments to local audit fee setting arrangements
- Consultation on allocation of £15 million to local bodies for audit
- Local authority remote meetings: call for evidence
- Local government pension scheme: changes to the local valuation cycle and management of employer risk
- Local authority financial reporting and external audit: Spring update
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