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Council Tax

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  • jennifernil
    jennifernil Posts: 5,580 Forumite
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    glasgowdan wrote: »
    East Dunbartonshire, now £3000! Band G, gone up £400... Not too chuffed at all.


    Also East Dunbarton, band H, including water and waste ( which is separate in England) ours is now over £3700, an increase of over £600.

    A lot to have to pay to live in your own home, and over 10% of our income.
  • glasgowdan
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    jennifernil wrote: »
    Also East Dunbarton, band H, including water and waste ( which is separate in England) ours is now over £3700, an increase of over £600.

    A lot to have to pay to live in your own home, and over 10% of our income.

    I think a lot of properties in the area are over rated for council tax. When such a high % are at G and H for what can be fairly modest homes.
  • n217970
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    Band E for us is 2k, and thats with losing the local town council element after moving to a village. old house would have been about 2.2k

    Plus we are in the north where as you all know its grim. We dont have big wages like the fancy southeners.
  • boliston
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    In some ways it would make more sense to rate properties by the land area they occupy than the internal floor area or number of bedrooms.

    If you live in a flat it is a much more efficient use of land so the land used by the plot could be divided by the number of floors in the block.
  • sheff6107
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    The system is inheritantly unfair. I'm temporarily renting a 3 bed semi which is unchanged from circa 1960 (single glazing, olive green carpets, electrics from Edison's day). Nobody would pay more than £160k for it.

    The neighbour's identical house would sell for £250k, yet we pay the same council tax. The property values wouldn't even have been comparable in 1991 because the people valuating just drove down the street and guessed what the houses were worth. Unless you had a sofa and half a car on your front lawn they assumed every house was in mint condition presumably.
  • Deep_In_Debt
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    Mine is £1335.00. Band D property.

    That includes single person discount. Expensive part of the country plus the new charges for Adult Social Care included this year for Surrey County Council. Quite a rise from last year.
    Debt 30k in 2008.:eek::o Cleared all my debt in 2013 and loving being debt free :)
    Mortgage free since 2014 :)
  • WibblyGirly
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    Ours is £1022 for band A. But we get single person discount as I'm a student (so £766)
    0.7% the city council
    3% adult social care
    2% fire
    2% police

    I find it strange how different areas calculate it differently. In one of my old places the house was the same size as this one now but was band B and was more money. I'd have assumed living in a city would have the more expensive council tax. Unless its living in a parish that causes the added expense?
  • booksurr
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    WibblyGirly wrote: »
    Ours is £1022 for band A. But we get single person discount as I'm a student (so £766)
    0.7% the city council
    3% adult social care
    2% fire
    2% police

    I find it strange how different areas calculate it differently. In one of my old places the house was the same size as this one now but was band B and was more money. I'd have assumed living in a city would have the more expensive council tax. Unless its living in a parish that causes the added expense?
    even a student should be able to spot if a parish council has caused an addition to the tax bill as it will create its own additional line on the bill?
  • Miss_Samantha
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    Council tax is skewed in favour of the richest/most expensive properties because the range is so narrow.

    Your billionaire in his mega-mention worth £100 million only pays a tad over 3x what the poor person in her dodgy one bedroom flat pays.
  • Kim_13
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    sheff6107 wrote: »
    The system is inheritantly unfair. I'm temporarily renting a 3 bed semi which is unchanged from circa 1960 (single glazing, olive green carpets, electrics from Edison's day). Nobody would pay more than £160k for it.

    The neighbour's identical house would sell for £250k, yet we pay the same council tax. The property values wouldn't even have been comparable in 1991 because the people valuating just drove down the street and guessed what the houses were worth. Unless you had a sofa and half a car on your front lawn they assumed every house was in mint condition presumably.

    I believe it's designed that way to prevent people from leaving their properties in bad repair in order to pay less council tax. Logical in a way, however I don't think most of those living with severely outdated decor would be doing so if they could afford to change it. The rising numbers of renters will just be putting up as there is no sense in spending money on someone else's property.
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