students and council tax question

[Samcro]

so from what I gather students at university do not pay council tax.
so my question is.. do the universities pay tax to the council to make up for this?
I have always wondered how this works. I live in a town with a large university, a lot of new accommodation is being built and there are masses of students living in private rental. because I have not been to university I can't work it all out.

wowfudge well yeah, where do you think the University's money comes from?

Council tax is made up of two parts, one part property, one part people.

So 50% is the property, and 2 people the other 50%. Therefore if 2 adults reside in the property a full charge is levied, even if that is a lone parent and their 18 year old child.

If one person is exempted ie a carer for the other adult they are disregarded for council tax and a 25% reduction is applied. The same with a student or an apprentice on a wage less than a certain amount.

There are property exemptions too ie if the property has been adapted for a disabled person the property is assessed and drops down 1 band ie from a D to a C.

Business rates are calculated very differently than council tax, and there is a multiplier ever year. They pay for their own bin collections etc as it will depend on the business as to what type of waste they produce.

I used to work in council tax but the University in the town wasn't very big so didn't have a big impact on the housing stock.

@Whynham I just didn't want to quote something when I wasn't sure it was correct. The point is that anyone thinking all students aren't paying council tax doesn't mean that they aren't contributing at all.