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Council Tax. Are You Paying More Than Your Neighbours? Check It Out
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Maisie wrote:
Cracking good tip, and I found that my much extended neighbour is 1 band higher that all the rest of us. So at least this street is up to date. I will now go on to check my relatives places...
This should be made a permanent tip somewhere on this site!0 -
asandwhen wrote:I have just heard back from the council -they are lowering my band from a d to a C - they said they will back date to 1993 - shame ive only been here since march - how will they get hold of the previous owners/tennents to refund there overpayment?
asandwhen... Glad my post helped. Maisie
ps I'm in Hertfordshire too.0 -
Anyone able to clarify what they mean when they say "physical changes to the area"?
Equally, I know of several properties in our location which have had extensions .. yet they remain the same
Would that make a difference to our banding?
The other thing I'm a bit peeved about ... in recent years, a number of the houses in our location have been sold and are now owned by HA's .. would this have any bearing? Would "new builds" have any bearing?? (Been a lot of that recently too, LOL )
This is one area I am completely clueless, so any extra info anyone can provide will be most appreciated.
Maisie! You are a star for providing the link!!!! :T~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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bootman wrote:I have just looked at the other 4 houses where I live they are all banded G like me.
I am only a 3 bed house and all the others are 5!!!!!
If I come out the same as them after review I think i will apeal
Bootman. asandwhen appealed and got a reduction.
Go for it.0 -
Queenie wrote:Anyone able to clarify what they mean when they say "physical changes to the area"?
Equally, I know of several properties in our location which have had extensions .. yet they remain the same Would that make a difference to our banding?
The other thing I'm a bit peeved about ... in recent years, a number of the houses in our location have been sold and are now owned by HA's .. would this have any bearing? Would "new builds" have any bearing?? (Been a lot of that recently too, LOL )
This is one area I am completely clueless, so any extra info anyone can provide will be most appreciated.
Maisie! You are a star for providing the link!!!! :T
Hi Queenie. I think physical changes means say if you had a noisy garage built next to you or a night club! or something like that.
I don't understand how the houses that have had extensions can be the same band as those without.
I did read that the government are not now doing the review so the only way I know of checking that you're not paying too much is contacting the voa.
asandwhen appealed and got his band lowered.
(Thanks to you also). Maisie0 -
Mine looked ok, so I thought I would check my Dad's out who was complaining how much he paid at the weekend. Noticed that his is down as a composite rate (business/personal use), as it used to be a working farm. It has only ever been a non working property whilst he has lived there so it looks like he will be in for a reduction and hopefully a rebate for 7 years. Many thanks for the link,
Rob.0 -
Very interesting... I'm in the middle of a bank of three (8yr old) houses, so I'm classed as a 'terrace' (whilst they're both end-terraces), one has a conservatory but other than that both are the same size as mine, yet I'm band C whilst they're both B!
I've appealed too - on the grounds that my house is no bigger and certainly not worth any more than theirs!!
Many thanks to Maisie for raising this, most useful. Fingers crossed that something changes for me! (even though I'm moving out soon...)0 -
hopewer. Hope your dad gets the rebate sounds if it's overdue.
indiegirl. Hope you're lucky with your appeal.
Maisie0 -
Bogof_Babe wrote:I think it is most unfair that we cannot appeal on the grounds that we've only just found out that most of the neighbouring houses are on a lower band. They don't exactly make this information readily available, do they? :mad: We've been here 17 years and just assumed that the road, which has only 30 houses anyway, would all be on the same band.
Our dormer bungalow with one small (only just a double, minus clothes storage) and two tiny "bedrooms" is band E, same as the house opposite which was sold a few years ago as having five bedrooms. Next door have extended and now have four bedrooms plus an en-suite, but are only band D. All the houses at the bottom of the cul-de-sac are band C. It's ridiculous
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B-B. Try appealing. Worth trying. There's a lot of money involved.
labpO4 post #10 says 'keep going and do not accept the doubts created by the civil servants communications'.
asandwhen appealed and got a good reduction in banding. He's well pleased.
Good luck. Maisie0 -
My OH sold his house last year and we are living together in mine, getting married next year. I intended to put the house in both our names after we marry (I've owned the house for 10 years), thinking that we shouldn't have a problem with transfer of assets between spouses. However, we are planning an extension (paid for by the profits of my OH's house sale) to the house before we get married. Reading this thread, I'm now wondering whether we will fall foul of the council tax rebanding on change of ownership if we wait until we get married, and after the extension will have been built.
However if we do the joint names bit before we get married, we'll incur another load of costs presumably to change the deeds again to my married name. Plus presumably there might be some sort of tax liability on my 'gift' of half the house to my OH. Would there be any point in my 'selling' him half the house? We would have the funds to be able to explore this option.Make £2025 in 2025
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