Hi everyone,
I really need some advice on sorting out my council tax exemption. I graduated from uni this June and moved out my student flat 3 weeks later (the flat I was living in was specifically listed as a student flat). Fast forward to the end of last month and we still hadn't got our deposit back so I phoned our letting agency who informed me they needed proof of our council tax exemption and the leaving forms of two of my flatmates (don't know why they couldn't have sent us a quick email when our tenancy ended instead of keeping quiet 
) before they can release our deposit so I filled in the necessary forms, uni has signed the stuff they need to etc. However I did phone the student services up at uni because they supply the council with a list of all the students who are exempt from paying council tax and as I was on a full time undergraduate course I would have been on this.
I tried phoning the council tax phone number the day I sent my form off to uni to be signed but it was one of those shitty automated ones and it kept asking me for my council tax account number. I have no idea what it is because I haven't received a single thing from the council about exemption, I naively assumed this was because I was a) living in a student flat and the letting agency made the council aware of this and b) my name was on the exemption list the uni provides the council 
I haven't had to deal with this before as I was in halls in first year, in a university sub-let flat in second year and abroad in third year. I genuinely had no idea you still needed to apply for exemption, and now I owe the council some money.
My course end date is stated as the 22nd of May and that's the remainder I'll have to pay from unless I can prove to the council I wasn't working then (which I wasn't, and I still have all my P45s and payslips from the last few years), however I'm hoping this won't be too much of a problem as I only started working again in August and I'm back at my parents so in a different area.
The council in question is Edinburgh City Council if that helps.