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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-benefit-regulations-2006/regulation-59",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-benefit-regulations-2006/regulation-59.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/215",
  "legislation_title": "The Council Tax Benefit Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-benefit-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/59",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "59",
  "heading": "Council tax benefit taper",
  "text": "The prescribed percentage for the purpose of sub-section (5)(c)(ii) of section 131 of the Act as it applies to council tax benefit, (percentage of excess of income over the applicable amount which is deducted from maximum council tax benefit), shall be 2 6/7 per cent.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/215/regulation/59",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:38:43.706263+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}