Council Tax Band database

isasmurf · 20 March 2005 at 8:48PM

This might have been posted before. Apologies if it has but I couldn't find it.

I've just found a database that lists every property's (in England and Wales) Council Tax band. You can search for a specific property, every property in a street or every property in a town! It will also detail if the property will be revalued on a change of ownership due to improvements the previous owner made. Useful research tool if you're moving house.

http://www.voa.gov.uk/cti/InitS.asp?lcn=0

Milky_Mocha · 20 March 2005 at 10:28PM

I'm not sure exactly what the benefit of the site is but that could be because I'm a bit sleepy. It seems to want too much information to begin with. I'll try again tomorrow when I can think clearer.

Talking of council tax I'm curious as to how much people pay in different parts of the country. I pay something between £1300 and £1400 for a 3 bedroom house in Kent and I think its way too much considering it includes a second home discount. It would have been between £1500 and £1600 - ridiculous

theGrinch · 21 March 2005 at 12:17AM

use your vote at the general election. its time the people said enough was enough regarding these council tax hikes

karenj · 21 March 2005 at 12:40AM

Before my parents moved abroad last August, they were paying around £1600 council tax in Bury, Lancashire for a 3 bed detached house, which was just below what they were paying for the mortgage. They will probably paying in the region of around 200 Euros per year now for the same size property.

I have just received my council tax DEMAND (how dare they demand!) and I have never read the information booklet they send every year. I have just been looking at this and find that the council tax bands were based on the amount the property would have sold for on 1 April 1991. I don't think our current property would have sold for the price they claim in 1991 - can anyone challenge this? The booklet also gives a breakdown of why costs have changed from last year to this. Included in this is the increase in pension and other staffing costs. Does that mean that every council tax payer is paying for public pensions???? If so, why?

Does anyone know the real reason for paying council tax?

Would it make any difference voting? Would they listen?? I think the only way around it would be for everyone to refuse to pay.

Sorry, I'll get off my soapbox now, but it really does make me mad .....

shrek101 · 21 March 2005 at 1:05AM

Nice to know that the house I live in band a on a low income is paying almsot 100% more than the same band in Westminster.

How the hell can council tax be fair.

Time to kick Labour out me thinks.

bridiej · 21 March 2005 at 9:37AM

We have a 2-bed chalet bungalow, we have a reasonable size kitchen and a reasonable size living room - our council tax this year will be £113 per month! (Shepway District Council)

I cant understand how people in other parts of the country with much bigger houses pay less - we're Band B.

dougk_2 · 21 March 2005 at 11:01AM

The biggest cause of the council tax increases is the Police...look at the % increases they have had over the past 5 or 6 years and what have we got for it?

I think its the police forces that need a BIG shake up in the way they operate.

bunking_off · 21 March 2005 at 11:47AM

Milky_Mocha
The benefit of the site is that you can check your neighbours' banding to verify that you're not paying more - then appeal if it turns out you are.

However, from experience of the appeal process I can confirm that this isn't a great deal of use. I live on an estate of 100+ properties and had a higher banding than all the rest of the properties - all the VOA need to do is find 2 or 3 properties "in the area" (in my case some were 4 miles away) that have got a similar banding, and you're on a hiding to nothing....

shrek101 · 21 March 2005 at 1:15PM

Well I be voting any party that wants to scrap council tax, it is unfair, it a regressive tax. People pay taxes not properties. There are many people earning good wages, have benefited from a education system which accounts to around 60% of our council tax, yet pay no council tax. There are people who pay more in council tax than income tax, how can this be fair?

Get rid of Labour, get rid of Tories none of them want council tax to be scrapped.

Roman_Camel · 21 March 2005 at 2:57PM

bridiej wrote:

We have a 2-bed chalet bungalow, we have a reasonable size kitchen and a reasonable size living room - our council tax this year will be £113 per month! (Shepway District Council)

I cant understand how people in other parts of the country with much bigger houses pay less - we're Band B.

I too unfortunately come under SDC and my Council Tax for a 3 bed end of terrace on a 'newish' estate in Hawkinge (just on outskirts of Folkestone) is £111-00 per month (Band 'C') .thats an increase of £42.95 on last year.

So does anyone know how much a dustman earns on SDC? Because if I have to pay £111-00 per month to have my bins emptied once a week,then they must be earning in the Super Tax bracket! The rest of the nonsense on the bottom of the Council Tax statement is just rubbish.Kent Police Authority,apparently if you need to contact them after 'office hours' you may end up being put through to Hastings! (only 40 miles or so away) ,I must admit luckily I have had no reason to contact them but if is the case.....well.

And crime doesn't pay?

Has anybody recently visited Folkestone? If so your comments would be most welcome.

Parts of it (especially the poor-end) look like lower Beirut!

The Channel Tunnel was supposed to bring 'big' things for this town but instead all our neighbouring towns (Canterbury&Ashford) have bloomed and Folkestone with all its Beaurocratic Bungling has been left behind.

The Town Centre is one giant car park with years of a promised shopping mall now a distant dream.

Go Folkestone Go HAHAHAHA.

nearlyrich · 21 March 2005 at 3:07PM

bunking_off wrote:

Milky_Mocha
The benefit of the site is that you can check your neighbours' banding to verify that you're not paying more - then appeal if it turns out you are.
QUOTE]

I used to live in a 2 bed terrace when the council tax bandings were announced. My property was rated as Band C :eek: and being skinter than skint at that time, I successfully appealed to have it regraded as Band B. As a courtesy to my neighbours I told them that I had managed to have it reduced and that they would have been in a good position to do the same. Amazingly, from checking the database in the OP, they didn't and they have been paying over the odds for years.

I had moneysaving tendencies even back then LOL:money:

Council Tax Band database

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