If your property is empty you will have to pay 100% of the council tax from day one unless it is exempt for the following reasons:
- Is owned by a charity (exempt up to six months)
- The owner/tenant is in prison
- Left empty by someone who has moved to receive personal care in a residential care home, hospital or somewhere else
- Awaiting grant of probate and for up to six months after grant of probate received
- Occupation is prohibited by law
- Will be occupied by a minister of religion
- Left empty by someone who has moved to provide care for someone
- It has been repossessed
- It is the responsibility of a trustee for someone who has been made bankrupt
- It is a pitch or mooring
- It is part of a property and cannot be let separately