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This letter confirms that the Secretary of State has made regulations and issued Directions to ensure the Homes for Ukraine Scheme does not affect a sponsor’s council tax status.
Regulations will protect sponsors’ council tax discounts for single persons and limit impact on council tax payments for those sponsoring a family in a second property.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
This letter outlines the steps the government is taking to prevent the Homes for Ukraine Scheme from affecting a sponsor’s council tax status. It also provides updates relating to the council tax rebate.
This letter provides answers to the most frequently asked questions about the council tax rebate 2022/23.
Speech by the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Minister for Intergovernmental Relations.
This letter provides information on the billing authority guidance for the council tax rebate.
This letter details the material which must be provided to households about the council tax rebate, including an information pamphlet.
Households across England are being urged to set up direct debits with their local council to receive a council tax rebate that will help millions of families manage costs of living.
This letter sets out changes to demand notices and local council tax support schemes for 2022-23, relating to the council tax energy rebate.
This letter sets out further information on the council tax energy rebate announced on 3 February.
Owners of second homes who abuse a tax loophole by claiming their often-empty properties are holiday lets will be forced to pay under tough new measures.
Kemi Badenoch discusses some of the key measures in the local government finance settlement.
This letter sets out the impact on Local Council Tax Support schemes of legislation which has recently been laid before Parliament.
This letter introduces an updated council tax collection fund deficit spreading tool, to help billing authorities undertake the calculations required in January 2022.
A letter on routine annual social care funding to local authorities for the financial year 2021 to 2022.
The government will deliver on its manifesto commitment by scrapping the electoral system of Supplementary Vote.
Plans to strengthen council finances, reduce risk to public funds and ensure councils are delivering value for money for taxpayers published.
Establishing these new unitary councils will bring significant benefits to Cumbria, North Yorkshire, and Somerset, giving the local leaders there tools to help level up opportunity and prosperity across their communities.
Sir James Bevan discusses need to address environmental inequalities as part of the "levelling up" agenda
Speech by Secretary of State Robert Jenrick MP at the Local Government Association’s annual conference 2021.
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