Hey.
Does anyone know what the situation would be for a non-student living with two postgraduates in terms of council tax? Would the non-student (i.e. me) have to pay the full amount of the council tax?

As far as I know you should pay the single person amount of council tax, that is 3/4 of the total.

As above, it's around 65% of the normal bill.

Thanks. That's less than I thought anyway.

I thought it was half - that's what seemed to happen in my house.

The way it used to work when I was in that situation is that students are/were NOT exempt from Council Tax - they are merely invisible when calculating it. Hence, a house occupied entirely by students had nothing to pay on it.

Move one non-student in, and they were the only person counted - so the household was billed 3/4 of the full Council Tax amount (single peron discount of 25% applied). The WHOLE household was liable, not just the non-student. Although it was usually the case that the students refused to pay a penny, thinking it was their privilege, therefore the non-student had to pay the whole whack.

Originally posted by RichD
The way it used to work when I was in that situation is that students are/were NOT exempt from Council Tax - they are merely invisible when calculating it. Hence, a house occupied entirely by students had nothing to pay on it.

Move one non-student in, and they were the only person counted - so the household was billed 3/4 of the full Council Tax amount (single peron discount of 25% applied). The WHOLE household was liable, not just the non-student. Although it was usually the case that the students refused to pay a penny, thinking it was their privilege, therefore the non-student had to pay the whole whack.

Your complaining that students refuse to pay a bill which wouldn't be incurred if not for someone else??? Sounds perfectly reasonable to me.

Originally posted by Cyclone
Your complaining that students refuse to pay a bill which wouldn't be incurred if not for someone else??? Sounds perfectly reasonable to me.
Did I say I was complaining? I'm saying it like it is. If they don't want to pay Council Tax, there are two courses of action open to them. Refuse to pay, or don't let a non-student move in with them.

Nah, I'm pretty sure it changed April last year. Only the non student would be liable, not the students.

I used to live in a house where I was one of two students living with a non-student. We had to pay 75% of the council tax, and because we were all on the same tenancy agreement then we were all liable to pay it, so we paid a third of it each. We were told at the time that if we were on separate tenancy agreements then only the non-student would have been liable to pay it! But this was a few years ago, so maybe it’s changed.

Or you could do what a landlord of mine did a few years ago and tell the council we were all students when some of us weren't.

Got away with that for about 2 years