Reliefs and Discounts

People with disabilities

If you or someone who lives with you needs an extra room or extra space in your home because of a disability, you may be able to get a reduction in your bill. This reduction would be given by putting your home in a lower valuation band. If your home is in Band A, you may still qualify for a reduction. Please contact the Council for further information if you think you may qualify.

Discounts

If only one adult lives in a property a discount of 25% will apply. Discounts also apply to certain groups of people including students, student nurses, youth training trainees and the severely mentally impaired. If you think you may be entitled to a discount you should contact the Council.

If you have been granted a discount and you believe at any time you are no longer entitled to it, then you must inform the Council within 21 days. Failure to do so may result in a penalty.

Council Tax Benefit

Council Tax benefit helps people on low incomes pay their Council Tax bills. For instance, if you are on Income Support, you will normally pay no Council Tax. You may qualify for benefit if you work and if your income is low in relation to your circumstances. Please contact:

  1. Local Authority Tenants: Contact their your Local Estate Office and ask for a benefit form to help
    pay rent and Council Tax or by Telephone (01978) 292033.
  2. Owner occupiers and Private Tenants: Contact Wrexham, 16 Lord Street, Wrexham or by telephone (01978 292033) and ask for a form for Rent Allowance and/or Council Tax Benefit.

Exempt Dwellings

Most dwellings will be subject to Council Tax, but some will be exempt and there will be no Council Tax to pay on them. These include properties where the only residents are students, severely mentally impaired persons and empty properties which:

  • are substantially unfurnished (exempt for up to six months).
  • are owned by a charity (for up to six months).
  • are left empty by someone who has gone into prison, hospital or a nursing residential care home.
  • are waiting for probate to be granted (and for up to six months after grant of probate).
  • forms part of a single property with another dwelling, being the residence of a dependant relative "granny annexe".
  • Are uninhabitable or undergoing repair/alterations (exempt for up to 12 months).

If you think your property should be exempt you should contact us on (01978) 292031 or visit us at Contact Wrexham, 16 Lord Street, Wrexham.

Council Tax Data Matching

Wrexham Council is participating in an exercise to ensure that public money is being spent properly. Wrexham Council is under a duty to protect the public funds it administers. It may share information provided to it, with other bodies responsible for auditing or administering public funds, in order to prevent and detect fraud.

The Wales Audit Office currently require us to provide details of all Council Tax properties; liable persons; amounts payable - including discounts, exemptions and disregards so that the information can be compared with other information provided by other public bodies, in particular the Electoral Register.

This data matching exercise should help ensure that discounts, exemptions and disregards are being applied appropriately and only to people entitled to receive them.

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