Local government
Services
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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
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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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Apply for Council Tax Reduction
Apply to your local council for Council Tax Reduction if you're on a low income or benefits - this replaced Council Tax Benefit
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Find a business rates valuation
How to find the rateable value of a business property: compare it with other properties and challenge your property’s rateable value if it’s in Wales.
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How Council Tax works
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 and getting the Council Tax rebate.
Guidance and regulation
- Start paying Council Tax
- How domestic properties are assessed for Council Tax bands
- Council tax rebate: factsheet
- Traffic signs manual
- The Blue Badge scheme: rights and responsibilities in England
News and communications
- Levelling Up Secretary in North East England to sign historic £1.4 billion devolution deal
- Office for Local Government: interim chair appointment letter
- 1/2023: Council Tax information letter - 13 January 2023
- Appointment of the Lord-Lieutenant of the County Borough of Londonderry: 12 January 2023
- Historic £1.4 billion devolution deal for North East
Research and statistics
- National non-domestic rates collected by councils in England: 2021 to 2022
- COVID-19 Additional Relief Fund distribution data and Retail, Hospitality and Leisure relief fund data
- Local authority revenue expenditure and financing England: 2021 to 2022 individual local authority data - outturn
- Local authority revenue expenditure and financing England: 2021 to 2022 final outturn
- Live tables on local government finance
Policy papers and consultations
- Strengthening local government transparency
- Local Government Pension Scheme: Changes to the Scheme Advisory Board cost management process
- Technical adjustment to the Business Rates Retention system: Consultation
- Business Rates Revaluation 2023: Consultation on the transitional arrangements
- Local Government Pension Scheme: Fair Deal – strengthening pension protection
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman annual report and accounts 2021 to 2022
- Highways maintenance funding allocations
- Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman annual report and accounts 2020 to 2021
- Transforming Cities Fund
- Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman annual report and accounts 2019 to 2020