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Council Tax Reclaim
Looking to see if anybody has experienced anything similar and any advice on how to progress. Recently I had the sad and unfortunate task of having to clear out my parent’s property. While sorting through the piles of documents I came across a Council Tax bill from 2000. This showed that at that time the property was…
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Pension Redress and Tax
Hi. Has anyone had a successful pension claim against financial advice to leave a defined benefit pension to only then find the redress is classed as income and not compensation and so have been left with a 45% tax bill and having to repay child benefits etc...which then leaves the compensation no-where near the original…
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Aoe unpaid by employer
Hi, I'm wondering if anyone can help me? So to give everyone some background i had an attachment to earnings order submitted by my local council (council tax) which was fine however from march to October 2020 my employer was taking the deductions from my wage and not directing the money back to the council! My employer is…
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Can you complain higher about a council? Billing issues.
Appreciate it might be a daft question, but can you go higher when it concerns a council. I did see we have an MP's surgery in my town coming up - but when I've looked in more detail, but I get the impression they won't help with council tax problems? History: I received a new bill 10th March requesting I pay £92.00 a…
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Can you claim you’re in a wrong council tax band if you’ve built an extension on your property?
Hi, We moved into our house in 2006 and built an extension in 2015-2016. We have always been in a higher tax band to most of our road. The houses are ex council properties so built in exactly the same way, same size etc, but for some reason our house is in Band D when most of the road are in Band C. I’ve gathered all of…
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Section 77/78 Building Notice charges £22,000 – HELP!!
Hi is there anyone who
can help or know anyone who can help, please? Building control
contacted me on the 16th March 2020 because the gable end of a
property I own that is adjacent to a road had moved and had become
potentially dangerous. I quickly found local contractors to bring the
wall down and rebuild it. For some…
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How does ppi work with ex partners
Hi I'm wondering if anyone can tell me if I have a complaint against lloyds bank. My ex took out a ppi complaint without my knowledge or consent, I had no idea as he was hoping to have it all to himself untill they told him he couldn't. My question is should I have been informed as I was the primary account holder and…
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Occupant in care - council tax discount
Hi If a house is unoccupied due to the occupant in care you may be able to claim a 100% discount. My family recently did that and it was a (relatively) quick and easy process. HTH
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Weird VOA letter
Hi We bought our house in 2014. It has an annexe flat above the garage, converted in 1997. We only found out _after_ purchase that it has a separate council tax - band A - even though there was one title, one mortgage and there are only 1 set of utilities (gas, water, electricity, broadband) for our home and the annexe.…
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It does work
We are pleased to report that we challenged our council tax band of F after living here for 31 years . As long as you have researched and produced evidence it is fairly straight forward . We received £7200 back in a refund and lowered to Band E saving £40 per month . Result !!
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who gets billed council tax in HMO
My daughter is moving into a post-university shared house with friends. 5 people, 4 with jobs (some part time, some full time) 1 full time student. Council Tax will apply but who gets the bill? Also, as the moving in date is 1/7/21, I assume they will only pay part of the year? Thanks
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Claiming back additional 3% Stamp Duty
Hi all, Hoping somebody can share their experiences with HMRC on claiming back additional Stamp Duty within 3 years of selling a second property. The standard path to being able to claim back stamp duty would be: - buy new property - sell ‘old’ property - claim back stamp duty. HMRC have asked me to provide details…
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Small Claims Court No response from defendant.
I took a business owner to the small claims court, but she never responded to the court. I asked for a judgement to be made, which was granted by the court. A few weeks later the defendant has asked for the decision to be set aside as she says she never received any emails or letters from the court even though the contact…
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Council tax revaluation 4 years after purchase
I have just received a notice from the Valuation Office Agency that because the previous owner had made improvements then due to a recent sale a revaluation will be undertaken. Which is fine, except we moved in 4 year ago. Is there a limit as to when they must issue a notice and how far they can go back? Thanks
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How is Council Tax decided?
Hoping someone here might know, but how is an areas council tax rate set?
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Capital Gains Tax transferring equity?
Myself and my girlfriend have owned a joint property for 15years, it is our only property and main residence. I wish to buy her share of the property (as I make the monthly mortgage payments anyway) and she would prefer a cash amount now instead of building future equity. We have agreed a transfer of equity, I have…
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Annex council tax
Hi everyone, sorry there has been a few posts about council tax and annexes but couldn't quite answer my questions. I've recently bought a new house and found out since moving in that the annex is listed separately for council tax. There was no mention of this in the particulars, searches, sellers information or…
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Council tax
Just wondering if anyone can advise me would be most grateful. I applied to VOA to reduce my council tax as my property wasn’t worth the amount they said in 1991 and wasn’t worth the value till at least 6 years later. Got my reply after many weeks of waiting and they refused to change my council tax band still stating it…
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Council tax
Hi. I have a four bed house and am currently a band E council tax. My wife is working permenetly at home so we have has to convert a room into an office. Could we apply to have our band reduced to a band D like the other 3 bed houses on our road?
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Commission
I thought Martin said sometime ago that when a mortgage company takes over another mortgage company they get commission, which we should get back. Is that true?
