Change of address or circumstances

If you are moving home or your circumstances change, you need to let us know.

Change of address

Before completing the online form you will need the following:

• Council Tax account number (if you previously paid for Council Tax in the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees)
• for an owned property, the date sale was completed and the name of the new owner
• for a rented property:
  • if you are the tenant, we will need your landlord's name, address and contact number
  • if you are the landlord, we will need your tenant's name, previous or forwarding address and the names of any other people aged 18 or over who live with the tenant

If you currently pay Council Tax to Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council and are moving home, you can: 

Tell us about a change of address

Do not tell us about a change of address more than 14 days before you are due to move.

If you are buying a property but are not moving in, then please let us know by completing our change in circumstance form.

Register for Council Tax

If you do not currently pay Council Tax to Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council, you need to register to pay. You can:

Register to pay for Council Tax

Change of circumstances 

If your home circumstances change this may affect your Council Tax, you can: 

Tell us about a change in circumstances

If you are a landlord, you can let us know if a tenant moves in and out of your property on the Council Tax information for landlords webpage.

Council Tax penalties

You should always tell us about a change of circumstances that may affect your Council Tax or respond to our written request for information within 21 days.

The law allows us to charge a penalty of £70 if you fail to tell us about:

• a single person discount that should have ended
• an exemption on a dwelling that should have ended
• any other discount that should have ended
• any change to the household that affects who should be the liable person
• information that was requested to establish liability

If we charge a penalty of £70, we will add it to your Council Tax account and send you a new bill.

If you have had a £70 penalty added to your Council Tax account and we need to make further requests for the same information, the law allows us to add further penalties of £280 every time you fail to supply the information.