Some people are exempt from liability for paying Council Tax.

Exempt people include those who are:

• aged 17 or under
• living in the property temporarily and who have their home somewhere else
• prisoners
• in detention prior to deportation or under mental health legislation
• defined as a severely mentally impaired person
• full-time students on a qualifying course of education
• a spouse or a dependant of a student and a non British Citizen who is not allowed under immigration rules, either to work in the UK or claim benefit
• young people on government training schemes, apprentices, or foreign language assistants
• hospital patients who live in hospital
• living in a residential care home, nursing home, or mental nursing home where they receive care or treatment
• living in a hostel which provides care or treatment because of a person’s old age, physical or mental disability, past or present alcohol or drug dependence or past or present mental illness and in England and Wales a bail or probation hostel
• live in carers/care workers
• staying in a hostel or night shelter, for example, in a Salvation Army or Church Army hostel
• school or college leavers still aged under 20 who have left school or college after 30 April. They will be disregarded until 1 November of the same year whether or not they take up employment
• aged 18 and someone is entitled to child benefit for them. This includes a school or college leaver in remunerative work, or a person in local authority care
• members of a religious community who have no income/capital of their own and depend on the community to meet their needs, for example nuns living in a convent 
• members of visiting armed forces and their dependants