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Services

• 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

• 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

  26 January 2017

  Valuation Office Agency

• How to check and challenge your rateable value

  Detailed guide

  14 May 2018

  Valuation Office Agency

• Traffic signs manual
  • Guidance
  • 23 February 2017
  • Department for Transport
• Abandoned vehicles: local authority responsibilities
  • Detailed guide
  • 13 March 2018
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

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News and communications

James Brokenshire removes commissioners from Rotherham council after 3-year intervention

18 September 2018

Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government and Department for Education

Press release

1. Return of remaining functions to Rotherham
   • 18 September 2018
   • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
   • Correspondence
2. Council Tax information letter: 13 September 2018
   • 13 September 2018
   • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
   • Correspondence
3. Council Tax information letter: Council Tax demand notices and the adult social care precept
   • 21 August 2018
   • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
   • Correspondence
4. Traffic commissioners report on improved service to industry and better targeting of the most serious offenders
   • 2 August 2018
   • Traffic Commissioners for Great Britain
   • Press release

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Research and statistics

• Local Authority Food Law Enforcement Returns 2017/18
  • 17 September 2018
  • Food Standards Agency
  • Official statistics
• Table A5 Corporate tax rates of capital allowance
  • 13 September 2018
  • HM Revenue & Customs
  • National statistics
• Live tables on local government finance
  • 23 August 2018
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  • Statistical data set
• Local authority revenue expenditure and financing England: 2017 to 2018 provisional outturn
  • 23 August 2018
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  • National statistics
• Local authority revenue expenditure and financing England: 2017 to 2018 individual local authority data - outturn
  • 23 August 2018
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  • National statistics

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Policy and engagement

• Local authority parking: contravention codes and penalties 6 September 2018

  Department for Transport

  Consultation outcome

  Date closed 16 February 2016

• Draft transport accessibility action plan 25 July 2018

  Department for Transport and Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee

  Consultation outcome

  Date closed 22 November 2017

• Local government pension scheme regulations 19 April 2018

  Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government

  Consultation outcome

  Date closed 20 August 2016

• Business rates in multi-occupied properties
  • 3 April 2018
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 23 February 2018
• Business rates retention: response to the Select Committee report
  • 1 August 2018
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  • Policy paper

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Transparency

• Traffic Commissioners: annual report 2017 to 2018
  • 22 August 2018
  • Traffic Commissioners for Great Britain
  • Corporate report
• Traffic Commissioners: salaries, April 2015 to March 2016
  • 2 August 2018
  • Traffic Commissioners for Great Britain
  • Transparency
• Traffic Commissioners: register of interests, April 2015 to March 2016
  • 2 August 2018
  • Traffic Commissioners for Great Britain
  • Transparency
• Traffic Commissioners: register of interests April 2017 to March 2018
  • 2 August 2018
  • Traffic Commissioners for Great Britain
  • Transparency
• Deputy Traffic Commissioners: spending April 2014 to March 2015
  • 2 August 2018
  • Traffic Commissioners for Great Britain
  • Transparency

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Organisations

1. Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
2. Department for Transport
3. Valuation Office Agency
4. HM Treasury
5. Traffic Commissioners for Great Britain

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14. Department for Work & Pensions
15. Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
16. Government Actuary's Department
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18. Office for Low Emission Vehicles
19. Office of the Secretary of State for Wales Swyddfa Ysgrifennydd Gwladol Cymru
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21. Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
22. Disclosure & Barring Service
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