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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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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Pay your Council Tax
Pay Council Tax online or by other methods, like direct debit to your local council
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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
- Tier posters: Medium, High and Very High
- How domestic properties are assessed for Council Tax bands
- Start paying Council Tax
- Check if your retail, hospitality or leisure business is eligible for business rates relief due to coronavirus (COVID-19)
- Council Tax band changes
News and communications
- 4/2020: Council Tax information letter – 5 November 2020
- Nottingham City Council: lead reviewer appointment letter
- London Borough of Croydon: lead reviewer appointment letter
- Jenrick confirms allocations of £1 billion funding for councils this winter
- Government invites Cumbria, North Yorkshire and Somerset to submit locally-led proposals for unitary local government
Research and statistics
- Live tables on local government finance
- National non-domestic rates collected by councils in England: 2019 to 2020 (provisional data)
- Northern Ireland Local Government District Tourism Statistics 2019
- Council Taxbase 2020 in England
- National non-domestic rates collected by councils in England: forecast for 2020 to 2021
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
- Business rate retention and non-domestic rates 2019 to 2020
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