Pity the new web site provides links to lots of false information about council taxation law, ,together with some publications by government agencies misrepresenting that law, apparently copied from original produced by Experian Ltd of Nottingham who have been misrepresenting it for a number of years now.
https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-council-tax-discount
Whoever wrote the material here appears to have copied from some other legally incorrect document. For example, it contains the hoary old nonsense about full council tax being based upon two residents. This is nonsense: full council tax is based upon the local council tax rate and the valuation band of the property.
Many of the links lead to false information; specifically information to the effect that there is something called a 'single person discount' as opposed to a 'disregard' discount and that the law requires you to tell the council if you are changing from one to another. This is not what the law (eg regulations 15, 20(3)(f) and 16 say (though it appears to be the attitude taken by Experian, who otherwise could not make so much money out of their council tax discount products).
I have asked the Department for Communities to take action on this; one can only hope it happens sooner rather than later.
I pointed out the mistakes via the contact number on the web site itself: this appears to be a waste of time. I don't suppose the people who do the web site know the first thing about council taxation law.
In the meantime, on the basis that this site provides links to false information and contains false/misleading information I shall not be relying on material I find on it.
