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Council Tax for Empty Property
I was wondering if anyone has had any success with similar situation. My brother died two years ago, he as in a retirement complex which has proved difficult to sell, we have eventually got over the line, and now have a final council tax bill just shy of £1,000. They have given an "empty property" discount, but that only…
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Council Tax discount - Question on legislation
So a property which only has one occupant is entitled to a 25% discount However for the discount to be valid does the council tax bill have to be in the name of the person living at the property Can the property owner have the council tax bill in their name, the property occupied by a third party and still be entitled to…
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Home insurance due but getting ready to sell.
Is there anyway I can recoup some of the money I'll be paying for my policy or is an annual renewal a sunk cost if you sell 3 months in?
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Council tax rebanding help needed
I live in a purpose built semi-detached wheelchair accessible bungalow in a cul de sac. All of the buildings on this road but one I am attached to are houses, and even the one I am attached to are 3 or 4 bed. I am the only 2 bed on the street. We are all band C except 1 3 bed which happens to be band B. There are no other…
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DLA
My mum has been getting DLA for 25 years and I believe she can get a reduction in her council tax- shes reluctant to claim as she’s worried they’ll do an inspection and see her extension! I doubt they have the manpower to do this so How do they adjust what she pays ?
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Council Tax Band Challenge
Hi everyone, I'm writing here in the hope of finding some advice about something. We moved into our flat about 1 year ago in Manchester city centre and we soon realised something was very wrong with the concil tax banding, our flat is a 2 bedroom of 891sqft on floor 6 and it's part of a bigger complex of 3 blocks,…
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Do i have to pay my Council Tax out of my Student Loan?
Hi, Im a mature student doing an Undergraduate Degree and have recently moved address from Scotland to England. We have applied for council tax exemption here with the local council. They have asked me to clarify and provide details regarding the student loans and bursary. Will i be expected to pay my council tax from my…
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IHT and probate
If the value of the estate/property the deceased left behind is under 80k. Do you still need to declare or do the IHT forms before a probate could be applied for? Because on rhe probate form it's asking whether IHT forms have been completed and need to be attached to the form before applying for probate. As there wasn't…
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Council Tax
I am a home owner on a new build estate which has not been adopted by the local council. We pay an annual maintainance fee for the upkeep of the public areas The road is private and there is no street lighting. The only public service provided by the local authority is collection of household rubbish. As anyone in a…
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Can the VOA backdate a council tax banding increase.
I have just discovered that when I moved into my property in 2006, my council tax band should have been increased due to improvement works carried out by the previous owner. I moved in, paid the council tax bills that were sent to me and didn,t know to question if a review should or should not have been done at this time…
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Anyone succeeded in getting Council TaX reversed
I cant type & see too well so please bear with me. My
council Tax band gone up from D to E to, it is wrong, it was £85,000 for a two bedroom bungalow with storage heaters & a pink bathroom, small
garden dominated by next doors conifer tree 35 ft high [been on the
market for a year nobody wanted it] My survey said fair…
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Bed Increase: 2 to 3. Will Council Tax Increase?
Hi All, I currently live in Leeds and I'm a single person living in a 2-bed house. The property is CT Band A, the price per annum is £1305.59, or (£979.19 with single person discount). I could be moving to Bradford shortly and have seen a property that is also Band A, but it is 3 bedroom. Everybody is telling me the…
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Refund on stamp duty - mixed-use property
Hi all, I have just purchased a house in London, and paid the full stamp duty on it. The property has an alleyway included (which I own) but which is shared with 5 other neighbors. They all have access to the alley via doors, and the alley is closed off by a locked door to the street which they all have keys to also. They…
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Stamp Duty Reclaim
Hi all I bought my home coming from a broken marriage in which i was in the process of selling but had not sold. Therefore i had to pay the second home STAMP duty. Through various negotiations the vendor offered to meet me half way and pay for half of my STAMP duty. I have subsequently sold my half of the marital home…
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Council tax
Hi there, this is my first post and as you'll see it's quite an unusual and complicated situation so hopefully won't put people off. My ex partner and I bought 2 properties in a farm steading a few years back. She paid the bulk of the sale (75%) to cover the larger property with the cost of the other property covered by…
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Council Tax Discount - between 2 homes question
Council tax discount is granted for a person who receives the required payments. But that person is registered at one property claiming a discount. But because their carer works shifts, then that person would live at another address for 7 days with another family carer. So that person would live with one family carer for 7…
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Council tax question
I currently live with my family (partner and two children) in a house owned by us. We pay council tax at 100% rate. For work reasons my partner will need to move to and live in another address for a few years (they will visit the current home frequently but this will no longer be their main residence apparently). Would I…
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Claiming Council Tax backdated
We recently claimed for council tax after seeing your show. We were able to get a reduction of over a £100 from Durham County Council. We did not know we could claim this until your show. We put a claim in for backdated council tax to the year that we started fostering. We were claiming from 25/07/2012 up to 14/05/2023. We…
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SDLT refund?
Hi all, Was hoping there may be some stamp duty experts out there that may be able to lend some advice... Last March, my partner and I bought a house together (property 'B'). This was deemed as an additional property as I decided to keep hold of my previous residence (property 'A') and switch it to a BTL. Of course, having…
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Council tax band increasing and they want to backdate it
We've received a letter from the Scottish Assessors advising our property is increasing a council tax band due to an extension done by the previous owners over 20 years ago. We accept the increase, while a bit annoyed. But our main issue is they're back dating the rate increase to when we purchased the property which was…
