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COUNCIL TAX
In most cases, you, as the tenant, are responsible for paying any Council Tax due on your home.
But there is one exception. If you live in a "house in multiple occupation", the landlord is responsible for paying the Council Tax. Your home would be a house in multiple occupation if you and other tenants each live in only part of it - and each pay rent for your own part - and you do not all belong to the same household.
If you are a tenant in a house in multiple occupation, your lease or another agreement may allow your landlord to include your share of the Council Tax in the rent - look it up. if so, your landlord can increase the rent to cover the Council Tax, even during the usual gap between rent increases of three years for regulated tenancies and twelve months for assured tenancies. However, he can make such an early increase only once, and only during the period 1 April 1993 to 31 March 1994.
Also -
- Your landlord cannot make a special Council Tax increase if you have a short assured tenancy.
- You have the same rights to object to a Council Tax increase as to any other rent increase.
- Any increase for Council Tax will be covered by any housing benefit you receive.
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