Council Tax Exemption

MyUniHub can provide evidence of your student status to apply for Council Tax Exemption. Please note that students do not need Council Tax Certificates for university accommodation.

Should you require a Council Tax Certificate, one can be obtained from a digital copy for your Gradintel account. If required, we can provide paper copies which can be collected or posted to you. If collecting in person, you will be required to provide identification (e.g. student card).

Please note that you must be enrolled on your course before requesting a Council Tax letter.
Please ensure you update your term time address before requesting a proof of enrolment statement via Gradintel or from the MyUniHub team. (n.b.There is a short delay between updating your address on your account and the update appearing on your Gradintel hosted letter)

The City and County of Swansea Council receives lists of all Swansea University registered full time students on a regular basis, if their term address falls within the area covered by the City and County of Swansea. However, you will still need to request a Council Tax Certificate from MyUniHub in the following cases:

You do not live in the Swansea area (n.b. please advise if your local council needs specific details mentioned in the letters we provide. We are not always able to fulfill these requests)
Your parents may need evidence of your student status

Please note that the final decision for Council Tax Exemption lies with the relevant local authority. Visit Swansea Council's pages here.

'Council Tax' is a 'household tax' which is set by local councils to help pay for the services that they provide. People are not exempt from council tax, but properties may be. This means that students are not exempt but a property occupied by only full-time students will be exempt. In properties where students and non-students live, the property will not be exempt but a reduced charge may apply, depending upon how many adults live in the property and how many of these adults can be treated as full-time students.

Undergraduate

Must be full time
A full time student is defined as studying more than 21 hours a week and more than 24 weeks a year. The course must last for at least one academic year or calendar year.
Supplementary examinations: If students undertake supplementary examinations during their final year of study, they will cease to be considered a student after the end of the academic year.

Students who complete an undergraduate course and proceed to study a postgraduate course will not be considered to be students during the interim and are therefore not exempt.

Postgraduate Taught Masters

Must be full time
Students are not exempt from the point at which they submit their thesis (for January entry students, the end of exemption will be either your submission date or course end date - whichever is later).

Postgraduate Research

The City and County of Swansea will grant exemption up until the point at which they submit the final (hardbound) version of their thesis.

In the first instance, Postgraduate Research Students will be provided with, at their request, proof of student status for the 4-year duration of their candidature. Once a student has made the initial submission of their thesis, the University will provide documentation confirming student status to cover them for a further 6 month period. During this 6 months most students will have taken their viva and pending the outcome of this possibly submitted their hardbound thesis. If this is not the case the University will review your need for further exemption on a case by case basis and issue further time appropriate exemption certificates.

If students receive a result of ‘resubmission’, they will again be considered to be students for the period of their resubmission.