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Council tax rebanding - help needed please
Hello, I would like to ask for advise please. I read Martin Lewis check regarding challenging council tax band. My current band is C and I would like to have band B as about 50 neighbourhood has band B. So my situation: I bought a house in December 2018. My council - Sefton, I live at number 8 - it is semi-detached and I…
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different areas
) How is that possible?
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Council Tax - Is Property Comparison The ONLY criteria for reassessment ?
I'll try &and keep this brief ! My property is in rural Mid Wales. I lived there on and off since 1989. I first lived there with my then partner and although my name wasn't on the mortgage there was a legal deed of trust on ownership between ourselves and I paid half of everything including council tax BUT my name wasn't…
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Council tax reduction for carers
Can't seem to find this out. Does council tax reduction go on your income. Do the council have to see all your incoming etc. If your on carers allowance and Attendance allowance can you get reduction or do you have to supply and say all your expenditure etc?
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Age of property
Not the best pictures, but could someone help me guess the approx age/decade of these properties. With many thanks
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Council tax reduction partial success in Wales
I live in Wales. Following the good advice from Martin Lewis I decided to challenge my council tax band. Successs! the valuation Agency has just reduced my band from F to E. The council has paid me a refund for 6 years to Feb 2016. There seems to be a law in Wales that refunds can only go back 6 years. This seems unfair as…
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Please can anybody help? Council Tax Improvement Indicator.
Hello, I am in England. Forgive me if I have placed this in the wrong section of the Forum. I sent it to Home DIY but feel that was the wrong thing to do. I
have been on the Council Tax Property Band webpage to check my Council Tax Band and have noticed an indicator in the details for my
address. It states : Improvement…
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Council tax band
Just looking for some (more) advise.
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Why a VOA letter now ???
I purchased my 2 bed detached bungalow in the West Midlands for £185,000 in March 2021. Small garden at the front and rear of the property. Narrow one car width drive to the right-handside. Basic bungalow. Council Tax Band 'C'. The property was bought by the only other owner in September 1978 for £2,300. Using the MSE…
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Correcting a council tax banding
We bought our house in 2020 and it sold for 392500 which works our council tax banding to be an E. However the property next door which is identical sold at 79000 in 1995 so surely our house would have been the same value therefore a band D. Also when our house previously sold in 2008 it would have put its price at about…
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Successful Council Tax Rebanding
We've just got our house in South Cambridgeshire rebanded from G to F, saving us £466 a year. Despite our providing lots of photos and other written evidence showing comparable local houses in Band F, the appeals service initially turned us down and provided their own evidence claiming our house should remain at G. We…
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Mortgage life insurance overpaying.
Moved to more appropriate place.
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Single Person Discount Rejected
I've recently moved into a flat in which I am the only occupant, and I have just been informed by the council that my application for the Single person discount has been rejected as apparently my income is too high. I thought that the single person discount wasn't affected by income, and even still, I don't earn a crazy…
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Wrong council tax band, outside the 6 months, Help please.
I've only just recently thought about looking into my council tax band and I've lived in my property for 7 years. I never considered I was paying more than almost every other house in my road, it just never occurred to me, until now. Does anyone know best way to word a letter to the valuations office? looking back over…
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Council Tax Banding
We are in a Band C, after doing a neighbours check I discovered our that our neighbour is in a Band B. Our houses are identical, except we have be paying a lot more which is quite unfair. I contacted the VOA, they did an investigation, from looking at the council website they changed there banding to a C. Unfortunately…
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Council tax Band, pass Neighcheck but fail valuation, do i still have a case?
Hi all, Myself and my fiancee bought our first home in 2019 - a 3 bed semi detached that we paid £165000 for. (this was ever so slightly above market average in the area at the time as house prices were rising) but house prices have risen dramatically since. (our neighbours just sold for 186k 6 months ago) we are on band C…
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Council tax appeal example
Hi everyone I have my appeal coming up and I was looking for any successful cases I could use as an example. We are a semi detached property in a road in band E. all other semis are band D.
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Capital gains tax on second property.
Please can anyone help! My son has an empty property, waiting the sale to go through, it was previously rented. He is purchasing a new build and has been told he needs to pay capital gains tax before the sale has gone through on his empty property and will be able to claim this back. We have only just found this out. He…
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New council tax income banding
Just received my council tax bill for 2022/23. I am currently claiming PIP and ESA as disabled and my husband is my carer and in receipt of carers allowance and only works 10 hours a week, so on low income. In previous years we have received a council tax reduction as in the vulnerable group, however, this year it seems…
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Council Tax second home wales
So already paying 100% council tax extra on my ONLY home , owned in Wales but the council are classing it as a second . I go to my house every other weekend and go there on all my leave (6 weeks ) plus after nights which could be a few more weeks a year. I RENT down South as my job is not available unless I travel 143…
