Council tax exemption

My wife has recently received a spouse visa and will be travelling to the UK this week (thanks to everyone on this site for helping us to achieve this). I am a British citizen and am currently studying for a degree as a full time student and am therefore exempt from paying council tax.

Once my wife is living with me (the only other person living in the house with us will be our one year old son) will we have to pay council tax with only a 25% single occupancy reduction or still be entirely exempt as my wife has no recourse to public funds?

Any advice on this matter will be greatly appreciated.

happydragon wrote:My wife has recently received a spouse visa and will be travelling to the UK this week (thanks to everyone on this site for helping us to achieve this). I am a British citizen and am currently studying for a degree as a full time student and am therefore exempt from paying council tax.

Once my wife is living with me (the only other person living in the house with us will be our one year old son) will we have to pay council tax with only a 25% single occupancy reduction or still be entirely exempt as my wife has no recourse to public funds?

Any advice on this matter will be greatly appreciated.

Start here:
http://www.ukcisa.org.uk/International- ... ouncil-Tax

happydragon wrote:we have to pay council tax with only a 25% single occupancy reduction

Yes

happydragon wrote:or still be entirely exempt as my wife has no recourse to public funds?

What does that have to do with the question? She can not claim public funds, but nothing said that she is not liable to pay them. She will be liable to pay all the taxes that need to be paid.

She is not eligible for council tax exemption and so she will have to pay council tax. For the purposes of council tax, she will be considered a single person in occupation of the residence.