You can make safe and secure payments for your council tax 24 hours a day, 7 days a week using debit cards: Visa, Electron, Solo and Maestro. Council tax debit card payment
To set up a direct debit, please go to our Council tax payment page.
If you cannot find the information you need on this website and need to speak to someone you will be able to do this during normal working hours (8.00am - 6.00pm) Monday to Friday. Please ring 0113 222 4404.
You can also choose to have your council tax bills sent by email
Register for ebilling
Once registered, you can check how much council tax you've paid and how much you need to pay for any property you're responsible for paying council tax on.
Check your council tax online
If you have moved, please use our online Change of Address form. Alternatively, you are welcome to call us.
Council tax discounts, exemptions and reductions
You can claim online for some council tax discounts, exemptions and reductions:
You can also find out more about other council tax discounts, exemptions and reductions from the link on this page.
Fair Processing statement - Council Tax and Benefits
This statement explains how we use any personal information we collect about you.
We will use the information you provide for the billing and collection of council tax and to process your claim for council tax and housing benefit. We have a duty to protect public funds that we administer, so we may also use information held about you for the protection and detection of fraud and other lawful purposes. We may pass the information to other agencies or organisations which handle public funds, such as the Department for Work and Pensions, or Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, as allowed by law, including data matching exercises such as those led by the Audit Commission or in conjunction with third parties such as credit reference agencies.
We may check the information you have provided, or information that someone else has given us about you, against other information we already have.
We will not give information about you to anyone else, or use information about you for other purposes, unless the law allows us to.
Leeds City Council is the data controller for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998. If you want to know more about what information we have about you, or the way we use that information, please write to:
The Data Protection Officer, Leeds Revenues and Benefits Service,
Leeds City Council, Selectapost 15, Leeds, LS2 8BA