Council tax when one person is not a student

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Next year my DS will graduate and will be working full time from Sept 2025 onwards. He wants to continue to live with his current 4 flatmates, who will be full time students for another year. They will be exempt from Council Tax but he won't be. He thinks he will only have to pay 20% of the property's full council tax bill, but I think he will have to pay either 50% or 75% according to this: https://www.gov.uk/council-tax/who-has-to-pay.

Does anyone have experience of this scenario?

my understanding is the property will get a 25% discount, so 75% of full council tax bill to pay.

Yeah I’m afraid I’ve had it both ways round and it’s 75%. In both of the situations I was in we shared the bill, but obviously his housemates might not want to do that.

He will get the single person discount only.

And it starts from the end of summer term, not graduation day,

He will have to pay 75% of full rate - he would be treated the same as if he was a single taxpaying adult living there with noone else.

Yes 75% as others have said. Presumably also with 5 in the house it’s a reasonable size and not a low Council Tax band. Depends on the Council area but 75% of say £2,000 is still £150 in each of the ten payment months that he’d need to budget for.

Excellent point. Especially with the job not starting until September and likely first salary paid at the end of that month. So perhaps three months of Council tax due before the first pay day.

He would be liable for the full 75% if not a student.
When we had it we all split it (2 of us were exempt the other 2 not) but we split it equally because we wanted to live together so it's worth a discussion with his friends.