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COUNCIL TAX 2021 - 2022 Contents Page Paying Made Easy Sign up for Direct Debit What Is Council Tax? 3 Online N Go To COUNCIL TAX 2021 - 2022 Contents Page Paying made easy Sign up for direct debit What is Council Tax? 3 online n Go to www.basildon.gov.uk. Have your Who has to pay Council Tax? 4 Council Tax account number and your bank details ready and decide which Discounts 4 day of the month you would like to pay (1st, 6th, 14th, 22nd or 28th). Exemptions 5 Pay online n Go to www.basildon.gov.uk to pay Benefits 5 online. People with disabilities 5 Manage your Council Tax online Register for our online services and How to appeal 6 help the environment by saving paper. You can: Basildon Borough Council – 9 n sign up for e-billing Analysis of our budget and the Council Tax n look at your account details and how we work out your bill Council Tax amounts for town 10 n find out how to pay your Council Tax and parish areas n check your Council Tax band How to contact us 11 n look at reductions you can apply for and other ways to cut your bills n see an estimate of the Housing Benefit More information or Council Tax Reduction you may be entitled to We can provide this information in other formats, for example large n claim Council Tax Reduction and print, Braille or another language, Housing Benefit. free of charge. Go to www.basildon.gov.uk or see the back of your bill for more information and other ways to pay. Cover image: Basildon’s bell tower. 2 | A guide to your Council Tax 2021/22 Working together for you Basildon Council have produced this booklet incorporating Essex County Council, Police Fire & Crime Commissioner for Essex and Essex Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner Fire and Rescue Authority information, to make it quicker and easier to explain how we work out your Council Tax and how we use it. What is Council Tax? Council Tax is a tax local authorities charge This year we need to collect £17.1 million to raise money to pay for their services. in Council Tax. Every £1 of Council Tax is Almost every household has to pay shared in the following way. Council Tax, whether your home is a 4% 11% house, bungalow, flat, maisonette, Essex PFCC Fire and Police Fire mobile home or houseboat, and whether Rescue Authority & Crime you own or rent it. £73.89 Commissioner Each property is put into one of eight for Essex bands, depending on how much it was £208.53 worth on 1 April 1991. Your Council Tax bill shows the band your home is in. Valuation Value of property band on 1 April 1991 Band D £1902.24 Band A Less than £40,001 Band B £40,001 to £52,000 Band C £52,001 to £68,000 Band D £68,001 to £88,000 Band E £88,001 to £120,000 70% 15% Band F £120,001 to £160,000 Essex County Council Basildon Borough £1340.91 Council Band G £160,001 to £320,000 £278.91 Band H More than £320,000 n Essex County Council use Council Tax to pay for services such as social We (Basildon Borough Council) collect services, highways and libraries. your Council Tax and put it into a separate fund called the collection fund. We share n We use Council Tax to help pay for this fund with Essex County Council, services such as refuse collection, Police Fire & Crime Commissioner for planning, leisure services and improving Essex, Essex Police, Fire and Crime facilities for our community. Commissioner Fire and Rescue Authority and the parish and town councils. www.basildon.gov.uk | 3 Who has to pay Other Discounts Council Tax? Properties in need of major repairs to make them habitable, or undergoing At least one person in each household is structural alteration may receive a 50% responsible for paying Council Tax. discount. After the discount period full In most cases the person (or people) Council Tax will be due. aged 18 or over nearest the top of the Properties that are empty and substantially following list will be responsible for unfurnished may receive a 50% discount. paying Council Tax: After the discount period full Council Tax n Owner-occupiers will be due. n Leaseholders A discount of up to 50% may be awarded depending on the number of disregarded n People who pay rent people who live in the property. When n People who have a licence to we look at the number of adults living in occupy, such as people who live in a property, we do not count: tied cottages (housing related to n full-time students, student nurses, their work) apprentices, youth trainees and n People such as squatters, who live in foreign-language assistants. the property but have no legal interest n if you are an apprentice see additional in it (that is, they don’t own or rent it) information about Council Tax n People who own the property but Reduction for apprentices. don’t live in it. n people who live in hospital n People such as tenants, married people people who are being looked after in or civil partners can be jointly or care homes separately responsible for all the Council n people who are severely mentally impaired Tax for their property. n people staying in hostels for the homeless or night shelters n 18 and 19 year-olds who are at school or Single Person Discount who have just left school, or if someone A full Council Tax bill assumes that there is still receiving child benefit for them are two adults living in the property. n care workers working for low pay An adult for Council Tax purposes is a (usually for a charity) people caring for person aged 18 years or over. If only one someone with a disability, who is not adult lives in the dwelling as their main their partner or their child (a child is home, the Council Tax bill may be someone under 18) reduced by 25%. n members of visiting forces, international You can apply for a single resident institutions and diplomats members of discount on our website at religious communities www.basildon.gov.uk/counciltax n people in detention (except people in prison for not paying their Council Tax or a fine relating to their Council Tax) the foreign spouse of a student prevented from working by their immigration status. 4 | A guide to your Council Tax 2021/22 Exempt properties n An elderly or disabled person living in part of a home (an annexe) and their You don’t have to pay Council Tax for relative lives in the other part of the home some properties. These are known as Please apply online if you think you ‘exempt properties’. If no-one lives in a should be exempt from Council Tax or property, it is exempt if the property: pay a reduced rate at www.basildon.gov. n is owned by a charity (exempt for up uk/counciltax to six months) You must tell us within 21 days about n is left empty and the owner or tenant anything that could affect an exemption who was living there is in prison or discount you receive. n is left empty by someone who has moved to receive personal care in a People with disabilities hospital, a care home, or somewhere else If you are entitled to receive Council Tax Reduction and a member of the household n is waiting for probate or letters of is disabled and in receipt of a disability administration to be granted (after benefit, the household will receive the someone has died) and for up to six maximum 75% Council Tax Reduction. months after the probate or letters are granted You may be entitled to pay less Council n is empty because it is against the law Tax if you, or someone who lives with for anyone to live in it you, has a room or extra space, or an n is waiting to be lived in by a minister extra bathroom or kitchen, or uses a of religion wheelchair in your property, to meet special needs relating to a disability. n is empty because the owner or tenant who was living there has moved away This means that people with disabilities to care for someone don’t have to pay more Council Tax for n is owned by a student and they were the extra space they need. the last person to live there You can apply on our website at n has been repossessed and is still empty www.basildon.gov.uk/counciltax n is the responsibility of a trustee for someone who has been made bankrupt Fraud and Penalties n is a pitch for a caravan or mobile Failure to tell the Council Tax office home, or a mooring for a houseboat within 21 days of any change that could n is part of a property that also includes affect your Council Tax liability or any of another home and cannot be let the reductions you receive, including separately Single Person Discount, can lead to a Homes are also exempt if the following penalty of up to £280. people live there: n Only students All Council Tax n Only people under 18 years old reductions and discounts n Only people who have a severe mental impairment and who would will be reviewed otherwise have to pay Council Tax. We will be checking every claim n A diplomat or member of international periodically so it is important you are organisations aware we carry out data matching and www.basildon.gov.uk | 5 work with the Audit Commission’s National Having difficulty paying Fraud Initiative.
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