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Retrospective Discount - Council Tax - Council won’t backdate more than 3 months - WALES
Currently on maternity leave but technically classed at unemployed (agency Social Worker). Prior to having baby saved up a pot of money to cover all bills for 12ish months, then live week by week on maternity allowance, obviously one of the bills I accounted for was CT as I’ve just always paid it. Completed multiple…
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Council tax banding query
I’ve recently challenged my council tax band with my local council as my neighbour- in an identical property to mine is in a cheaper band (they are a B, my property is a C). the council has responded with the below, which I do understand due to GDPR, however does anyone know what the ‘specific reasons’ could be please? How…
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Second home or annex?
Sorry long question. We purchased a property last year that has a second property within its boundary. A barn converted in 2001 to a residential dwelling and it was lived in by the daughter of the main house. It states on the deeds that permission could only be granted to convert the barn to a granny/family annex and that…
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Council Tax Band Success - are my council right?
After 13 months, the Valuation Office have finally agreed to the submitted evidence and changed my property band from a C to a B - leaving me with c7 years rebate! Woo. Now the issue. Having read multiple comments and success stories on here of people receiving a cheque with the difference, I've been expecting the same. As…
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Council Tax when moving, renovating then renting out
This is a situation that is not covered on my council's website and I may not wish to alert them by asking.In the summer my family and I will be moving from our current house to one that comes with my new job. For a while my spouse will be back and forth doing renovations to make the current house fit for letting out. Once…
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Help us challenge a council's rebanding decision
This discussion was created from comments split from: Council Tax Band Success - are my council right?.
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Council tax band-it is based on the price the property would have sold on 1 April 1991
Hi, Could someone advise how to find the price of my property if it would have sold on 1 April 1991? How the VOA would know the price of my flat on 1 April 1991? Thanks, Jose
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Council Tax Woes
Hi I’m after some advice before I do something stupid. My husband had to migrate from ESA over to a joint UC claim. I work 37 hours a week and only 8 of those are in the office as I am also my husbands carer. Prior to migrating my husband had full CT exemption due to his disabilities. Now, we are entitled to nothing. We…
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Do Kensington mortgage refund fees years after paying off mortgage
I just received an unexpected cheque from a secure loan I paid off 4 years ago, for fees and charges incorrectly added. So got me wondering if I’m owed same from my mortgage at the time. Do Kensington mortgage do these kind of refunds? If so do I just email or ring them?
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Council Tax Band Changed Suddenly
Hello, I had a letter from the council on May 13th 2024 informing that our council tax was now being changed from a B to a C. The band has been a B since the house was built in the early 1980s and we bought the property in 2014. No changes have been made to the property since we have owned it. We challenged the change and…
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New Build Apartment - Off-Plan Service Charge vs Reality
Greeting all, I'll try to keep this as brief as I can. I bought a new build apartment off-plan back in September 2022 (reserved) under the affordable housing scheme with a 35% discount applied for my area for those eligible. The service charge was quoted as £950.69 per annum for the building on the reservation agreement.…
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Appeal Or Not? Council Tax Band Challenge (VOA)
Hi all! I'm hoping to get some thoughts from others with experience of council tax challenges and dealing with the VOA We recently had a challenge rejected. The decision took over 13 months The date of 1 April 2003 is mentioned a few times throughout the document when explaining how the decision was made. Our property is…
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Council Tax band - question about VOA decision
Hoping for advice from anyone with experience of querying a band with the Valuations Office (VOA). In short: - Bought a property knowing it is banded as Council Tax H, but knowing there are more than 10 houses on our street that have larger square footage and larger plots/acreage which are all banded as council tax G. - We…
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Council tax/empty property/probate
do each council have different rules for calculating council tax payable on an empty house to be sold as part of an estate, probate was granted 2 months ago
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Falsely Advertised Council Tax Band Options
So I have just purchased a property which was advertised as a council tax band D on both estate agents websites and the property questionnaire of the home report. I got my first council tax bill and it's come through as an E. I have queried it with the council and the information they have from the Assessors database is…
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Council Tax
We checked our banding on council tax , we live in a Maisonette, block of 4 . One in Band A the rest B . Our property was less than the threshold in 1991 . So we contacted VOA , when we didn't hear back in time we queried it again . Today they emailed and said sorry we've updated our computers so it will now take up to 12…
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Financial Ombudsman Service - Strange Decision
Hi All, I am new here, so please be gentle. I bought a car on finance for 90k on a PCP contract that is in my name and my address and regulated by the consumer credit act. I had a complaint about a serious fault and wanted to reject the car. The finance company did not accept the request and I then referred the matter to…
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Unique Home Brings CT Band Challenge
Hi My wife and I have exhausted our research into evidencing rebanding the council tax on our home. We are currently in band F and the 1991 index suggests band D. Our immediate neighbours are band D or E, in similar size properties. We live in part of a former pub (closed in the ‘50s) that was divided up into 4 terraced…
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Council Band appeal
I've recently bought a property that was built in 2006 on a plot of land that was once the garden of next doors house. The houses around were built in approx 1955 a mix of terraced and semis with a couple of 3 bed detatched. My house was built as a 5 bed detatched. There are no houses in the immediate area to compare it…
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Money Moral Dilemma: Should I give my old neighbour some money for the council tax refund he got us?
This week's MoneySaver who wants advice asks... My former neighbour had always rented out his property. He put it up for sale, was left paying council tax on it for the first time and was adamant it was in the wrong band, so he submitted a big report and the band was reduced - for him, me and some other houses. We all got…
