CE20
Finance and Corporate Resources
Council tax – discount or exemption for students
You can complete this council tax exemption or discount form for students in Adobe Acrobat and
print it out, or print it and complete it by hand, using block capital letters. Return the form to our
Benefits and Revenue Services, PO Box 3591, Glasgow G73 9ED. If you require help in
completing the application form, please contact our call centre on 0303 123 1011 or email
[email protected] If you need this information in another language or format,
please contact us to discuss how we can best meet your needs. Phone 0303 123 1015 or email
[email protected]
Personal details
Please note: the asterisk* indicates required information
*Forename
*Surname
*Address
*Town/city
*Postcode
*Home phone
Work phone
Mobile
Email address
Council tax reference number (if known)
Exemption/discount category: Dwellings occupied solely or partly by full-time students
Qualifying conditions
An occupied dwelling where the sole occupier or all occupiers are full-time students will qualify for
complete council tax exemption.
An occupied dwelling where all occupants except for one are full-time students will qualify for a
25% discount.
Where more than one full-time student resides at the property, exemption or discount can only be
granted for the periods where the full-time students were full-time students simultaneously.
A person is considered to be a full-time student if he/she is:
a) under 20, studying for more than three months and for at least 12 hours per week for any
qualification up to ‘A’ level or Higher Scottish Certificate of Education or equivalent; or
b) undertaking a prescribed course of education at a further education establishment lasting for at
least 24 weeks within each academic year and involving at least 21 hours of study per week on
average during term time: or
c) a person registered with the Central Bureau for Educational Visits and Exchanges and working
as a foreign language assistant at a school or other educational establishment in Great Britain.
To be completed by a liable person
I (insert name)
Wish to apply for council tax discount/exemption on the property at (insert address)
On the basis that: (please tick the statement that applies to your household)
I consider the household to consist solely of full-time students as defined above.
If there is more than one adult resident at the property and you consider all of
them to be full-time students, please list the additional adults’ names below.
Or
I consider all but one of the occupants of the property to be full-time students.
The additional adult(s) living at this address along with myself is/are
Additional full-time students name(s)
Tick if full-time student
1.
2.
3.
4.
Important note
Even though the college or university will confirm the date the course is scheduled to end you
must contact the Council as soon as a course ends in order that any discount or exemption you
are no longer entitled to can be ended. You will then be notified of any changes to your Council
Tax charge and your payments.
The longer you delay in notifying us of a course ending the more discount or exemption you will
need to pay back. This will increase your Council Tax payments and may even result in the whole
amount being due in one single instalment.
To be completed by education establishment
I confirm that the person named below is undertaking the following course of education:
Name of student
Date of Birth
Certificate/qualification being studied for
Course name
Course start date
Course end date - please enter the date when the full course is due to end, rather than just the
end of the current academic year.
Which year of the course is the student currently in?
Length of course within academic year (months)
Average study per week (hours)should include in-class study and any other study outside of class
Does the college/university consider this course to be a full-time course?
Position
Date
Signed
Establishment stamp
Declaration: I declare that the information I have provided is true and complete and I authorise
South Lanarkshire council to verify these details
Signature of applicant
Date
Warning: The council will check the details you have provided. If these are found to be
false, it may result in legal action.
Please note:
The council has a statutory duty to manage public funds properly and may use the information
which you have provided on this form for the prevention and detection of fraud. Information
provided by you will be used to ensure that all sums due to the council are paid on time, for
example by identifying persons who are non-payers of council tax and improving the uptake of
benefits. This information may be shared with other bodies, including neighbouring councils, or
bodies which are responsible for auditing or administering public funds.
Finance and Corporate Resources February 2016