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We have had a letter saying our council tax band is changing...after living here almost 4 years
Hi, we have received a letter saying our council tax band is changing....it will be going up by 2 bands....we have lived here almost 4 years...can they do this? The guidance i can see online says it can be changed when sold, it had a small extension put on by the previous owner so this surely should have been flagged…
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Stamp Duty Relief - Multiple Dwelling
We moved into our home in February and have been bombarded with letters from various firms telling us we are due a refund on the stamp duty we paid as our home has two dwellings in their opinion. We have an annexe - bedroom, shower room, kitchen with its own front door but it can be accessed through our kitchen and we need…
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Council tax assessment system
Am I missing something in thinking that the system is flawed because freehold and leasehold property values increase differently. According to Nationwide property values my leasehold property should now be band C as my leasehold property has not increased in value at tthe same rate as local freehold properties.
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Another
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Insurance reimbursement
When i took out my mortgage over 15 years ago, I was told by my lender that I must take out their buildings insurance. About 2 years ago they said that this was no longer the case. After a look around, I found insurance at 1/3 of the previous price. Do I have a case for a complaint? How do I go about it? Cheers
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Unable to compare banding to others
I have in the past attempted to contact the council/ valuation office to explain my banding being incorrect and gave a lot of information to prove so but all I ever got back from them were very short replies as if they hadn’t read all my information and didn’t really want to help. Basically I gave up with trying a few…
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Property
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Council Tax Banding Appeal
My home has been rebanded from C to E! There appear to be 2 reasons for this 1. I bought it for £100K in 1991 (the year that is used to set bands) 2. The VOA hold incorrect information about the size of my house and therefore do not accept my selected comparision properties - including the identical semi next door! My…
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Council Tax Rebate , mid year
My son has just moved into his first private rented flat , is he entitled to the council tax rebate as he was not paying Council Tax until August? He hasn't previously received it as this is his first home.
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Council Tax reduction due to temporary "no residents" / "single resident" status refused
Hi all, Firstly thank you for providing this forum, it is greatly appreciated to be able to glean others opinions that have been-there-and-done-that. My wife and I had to travel back to New Zealand in July 2020 as a result of my wife's mother passing away in June that year, in order to take care of her elderly father who…
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Council Tax Rebanding appeal years later
Help please! About 4 years ago we successfully had our CT rebranded from a D to a C. Although they only rebranded back to April 2011 but we lived there from Novemeber 2007. At the time I spoke to someone and he tried to say that that’s the furtherest they could go back. This was done on the phone and I have no record of…
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Council tax rebate and energy help
I understand the government is helping certain people with the energy bill crisis. This is my position. Wife is 74 and on a state pension. I am 61 and a director of my own company living off of dividends. We owned our own home until 29th March 2022 and sold. We needed to rent for a short time as the house we are buying…
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Stamp Duty Query
Hi All, Apologies for asking what is no doubt an oft-asked question, and I do know what the answer is likely to be but would like to double-check as I've not seen anything with our specific circumstance. My Wife and I have had an offer accepted on a house in the midlands which falls under the 2% stamp duty bracket. My Wife…
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Council Tax Rebate
Hello, I currently rent a room in a property that falls in Band D thus would be eligible for the rent rebate. The council tax is paid as part of our rent, but have not seen on heard about receiving some of the rebate from the landlady. I know I should email and ask about this, as I feel out of courtesy they should pay the…
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Council Tax Banding
I’ve been trying unsuccessfully in the past to challenge my council tax banding. I provided a lot of evidence from when our house was built to show it was built to the same specification as houses in the lower band. They still disagree. That calculator on the site shows that the property should be in a lower band, but not…
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Council charging extortionate amount for leasehold renewal
Hi, My dad recently found out that his house that he’s lived at since 1987 only has 57 years left on the lease, owned by the council. Through further investigation it appears that the property originally had a 99 year lease, and for what ever reason, this hadn’t been clear to him. He has contacted the council to understand…
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Tenant owes £10000
Hello All, I’m wondering if anyone can help at all?! We started the legal route to evict our tenant late 2019 two years later and numerous delays due to Covid we were successful and we evicted the tenant through the courts, obviously we were grateful to finally be free from the tenant and we have now sold the property. He…
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Bailiff charges for council tax arrears
Hello mse crew, I moved house last year within borough and failed to get the message across to the council that we had left the old property (we had been renting). I cancelled the direct debot and called them to tell them but since it was in my wife's name they didn't allow me to close the account. I also filled out a…
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Council Tax Wrong Banding F to C?
I'm buying a property which is Band F but straight away I knew it was incorrect, and would be an E, possible even a D. It has had the same resident since 1987 and I have no idea why they never appealed, but the problem was always going to be how to prove this. Well yesterday, the solicitor sent a copy of the 1987 bill…
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Council tax band challenge, which houses to compare to
Hi, so we were hoping to start a challenge to our tax band - it's an estate of 4-bedroom houses, and most built to the same original design as ours have now had some sort of extension put on. Our extension is one of the earliest and smallest. Most are just a little bigger than ours but a few are relatively huge two story,…
