Council Tax

Information and services in Council Tax

• Payments, bills and bands

  How to pay your Council Tax

  • Register for Council Tax
  • How to pay your Council Tax
  • Sign up to Open Portal
  • Check your Council Tax balance

  • Council Tax bands
  • Parish precepts
  • Understanding your Council Tax bill
  • Help and support during Covid-19
  • Your guide to Council Tax virtual brochure

  

• Moving home or change of occupants

  Register for Council Tax or tell us you're moving

  • Tell us you are moving
  • Moving into the District
  • Moving within the Braintree district
  • Moving out of our district

  • Tells us when someone had died
  • Apply for single person discount

• Discounts and exemptions

  Information on discounts and exemptions

  • Report a change of circumstances
  • Apprentices and youth trainees
  • Carers
  • Council Tax annexe discount
  • Members of visiting defence forces
  • Apply for single person discount

  • Council Tax empty levy charge and exemptions
  • Disabled relief
  • Members of religious communities
  • Patients in care, nursing homes and hospitals
  • Students and student nurses

• Council Tax Support

  How you can claim Council Tax support

  • Apply for Council Tax Support
  • Apply for a Second Adult Rebate
  • Report a change of circumstances
  • Request a home visit to help with a claim

  • The Local Council Tax Support scheme

• Debts and arrears

  Find out about Council Tax recovery

  • Council Tax recovery
  • Liability order

   

• Disputes and appeals

  How to appeal your Council Tax bill or band

  • Appeal your Council Tax bill
  • Appeal your Council Tax Band