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Council Tax Rebanding SUCCESS stories
MSE Insert! Forumite lanerideruk successfully reclaimed 19 years' worth of council tax - £2,400! Join and let us know what you've reclaimed too. Read how to do it yourself: Council Tax Cashback This thread is especially for reporting your successes in getting your council tax rebanded plus refunds. The aim is to show…
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New to the Reclaiming Mortgage Fees, Council Tax, etc board? Start here
🏠 Some threads that may be useful * Council tax rebanding success stories 🏠 Useful links to MoneySavingExpert.com guides * Lower your council tax band (England and Scotland) * How to reclaim overpaid council tax * How to claim the 'severely mentally impaired' council tax discount * Complain and reclaim 💡 If there's a link…
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Could I change council tax band on new valuation
I'm buying my first home in Scotland which is currently tax band F which feels pretty high. The house was first sold in 2012 for £269,995. It's had a pretty big decrease in value and is now valued at £210,000 which is what I've paid. Is it possible to ask for the band to be reassessed based on the most recent sale value?…
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On Disability Benefits & Being Charged Council Tax
Just moved house and district and the new council (South Holland) have a policy of charging every household, regardless of income status, a minimum of 25% Council Tax. Anyone know of any other council doing this as I need to challenge it. It feels inappropriate to me that a council can effectively 'divert' money the…
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Student Council Tax Problem
My daughter has been at university for the last 4 years. In January she received a bill for council tax for 2022. She rang the council and they said they hadn’t received her exemption certificate. She still had a copy so sent it on. They then said she owed a month as she moved into the property before her course started.…
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Council Tax on Second Home
My wife and I own and live in two properties - an inherited larger house in the country and a small flat in London. The country house would have the greater value. We sold our primary residence about 12 years ago shortly after we had inherited the country house, and paid no capital gains on the sale. We used some of the…
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unlawful charges by housing association YES or NO advice please
Hello All this is my first post so hopefully i get it right. i have lived in my housing association rented house for 23/24 years 16 years ago a neighbouring football club donated funds to my H/A to have electric gates installed. the neighbouring sections left and right had the same donation. both areas had electric gates…
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Council Tax Appeals can I appeal a second time ?
We are living in a 2 bedroomed bungalow and we are in Council Tax Band C, two for sale around the corner have 3 bedrooms and I found out they are in Council Tax Band B !! We appealed our tax band when we first moved in some 10 yrs ago because we thought even then that we were in the wrong tax band but the appeal was…
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NDR for Holiday let
Hi, We currently pay a council tax premium on our second property which is a holiday let. Do we have to meet holiday let conditions for a year before we can claim business rates? Thanks
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Stamp Duty Refund
Dear MSE Forum, Stamp duty Refund Help. I purchased my property with my then partner in November 2021, as we were getting divorced I needed his help to purchase the new property. In November 2021 my partner removed my name from our family home which we agreed. I then removed my partner’s name from the new house in May…
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Challenging council tax band after home improvements
Hi all I just read through the article about challenging your tax band with the intention of doing it today, but I'm not sure if I should proceed. We bought our house in 1996, for £47,500, tax band C. However, equivalent properties in our street are band B, and the neighbouring properties which are also band C have much…
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Paid Council tax, but Council says I haven't?!
I received a council tax bill in March 2024, I went to my online banking (Natwest) and set up a new payee... I entered all of the bank details correctly of Bedfordshire Council, sort code/account number etc... entered the full amount for the year, which was £1,770.52.. and sent payment. Saturday just gone (27th of April) I…
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council tax for part time student
just wondering my daughter is a student living in a HMO the HMO is over 4 floors and has 5 bedrooms on each floor with a communal living area / kitchen on each floor. My daughter is on a part time degree course but has been unable to secure a job, and thus her only income comes from family contributing, also with her…
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Ho do I find houses prices as at 1991, for council tax reevaluation
Could someone provide assistance, please? I'm attempting to determine the price of the house as of 1991. However, there's a challenge as the properties, only 5 in total, were built on previously demolished garages, and there are no houses with comparable age, size, construction time, or appearance. The valuation office has…
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Council tax new changes
As of April 2024, my local authority (not sure about others) quite slyly introduced a new rule that means any property unoccupied for more than one year will be charged double the annual standard council tax rate. We completed and got the keys on the 4th April as soon as this came into force - there was absolutely no…
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Diesel car compensation
Daft question but I stay next to a motorway which all the different law breaking cars drove past day in day out and would have thought twice about buying a house there if I knew my children were at higher risk of poor health outcomes due to the emissions cheating devices the manufactures had utilized, as such I would have…
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Money Moral Dilemma: Should I tell the previous owner of my home he's due a council tax refund?
This week's MoneySaver who wants advice asks... I recently bought a house, and during the sale process the previous owner made various promises he didn't keep, leaving me around £2,000 out of pocket. After moving in, I followed Martin's guide on challenging your council tax band, and was successful, so I'll save £550 a…
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Council Tax refund
I have successfully appealed against my council tax banding and had it moved to a lower band with an effective date of 1st April 1993. Does that mean I can expect a refund backdated to then? I have tried council and .gov sites but just go around in circles.
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Tracing Lost Accounts
My mother in law for whom I am LPA, has Alzheimers. He has repeatedly told me that she has money in an account "in London" but has no more information than that. There is nothing in her paperwork referring to this but she has mentioned it on a number of separate occasions. I have tried my lost account but it needs more…
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Council tax increase challenge
Hi, I’ve received a letter from my council telling me they have done some investigating and they are increasing my band from D to E. there are other properties on the street built at the same time that are still on band D. I’ve got evidence of these properties and will be adding it to my appeal but wanting advice if there…
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Second home Council tax premium (Wales)
I had to buy a house in West Wales 3 years ago because I work here full time, in this time my second home council tax premium has risen from plus 50% to 200% for 2024-25. For my band C house, this means the council tax payment of approx £1600 plus a further £3200 per year. My wife can`t move here full time because of her…
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SMI ..Council Tax !
There's no forums on this so it appears it's one of the Local Councils hidden items. As I've just found out after 20 years. SMI: severe mental impairment you can claim Council Tax full rebate. If you have Severe mental impairment ie: paranoid pyschophrenia, and similar you just have to contact Council tax SMI dept and they…