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Changing council tax: Number of Liable person(s), over 18 years old, now living in this property?
Hi, Changing council tax: Number of Liable person(s), over 18 years old, now living in this property( Person(s) responsbilittie for the council tax at this property)? I am changing over council tax and I am slight confused to the question (above) . I would like to know if its asking for each person over the age of 18 ,who…
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Council Tax Banding
My mother lived in a warden assisted, 2 bedroomed, terraced house. She pays approximately £180 mthly maintenance fees. She also pays band E council tax rates. In a separate facility, she has access to an on-site laundry and community lounge but chooses not to use it. Is she being charged inflated council tax banding for…
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Reclaiming stamp duty problem
Hi, I’m new to the forum and wondered if anyone can help me. My boyfriend bought a new house back in Oct 2007. He was told he had to pay stamp duty and then claim it back. In Jan 2008 he wrote a letter to HMRC and they said he was right to pay it when I’m fact he wasn’t. It was £145k under the £150k threshold of that year.…
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Overpais standing order payment
I recently came to close an old bank account and noticed a standing order payment of £11.00 per month going out to High Peah Boro Council fo a council owned leisure centre membership which had not been used since 2009. They say they tried to contact me over the years but I had the same house and telephone number for the…
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Mis sold solar panels
What happens when your solar panel providir is bought by another company.? They changed the terms and conditions without informing us and now we try not to use them as it costs us more money. Our initial contract was that we used as much solar energy as we needed and the surplus would go to the grid meaning we saved money…
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Valuation Tribunal - VOA evidence deadline
Can someone (hopefully) validate my understanding please. Tribunal practice states: "At least six weeks before the hearing date, you must provide the appellant with
your full case in response to the appeal" (this relates to VOA providing evidence to me, as appellant). It also states: "If you fail to provide the above by…
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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
