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Aberdeen City Council Tax Refunds
Good Morning, Everyone. I know this is a very, very specific post but it should be applicable to all local authorities, not just Aberdeen. Earlier this year a senior council worker was convicted of embezzling over £1m over a 17 year period by siphoning off unclaimed council tax refunds. The Council at the time promised to…
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Council Tax - 2 houses next to each other, two children, one disabled. 1 minor living in one side.
Hi, this feels like quite a conundrum and any suggestions would be very much appreciated. We live in Cornwall, we've ended up in a situation where we own and live across two small cottages that are connected (part joined, no planning or building regs applied for or changed). We're married with two children, both under 16…
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Reclaiming second home tax
Hi, I have a tricky situation where I have been trapped with a shared ownership flat in London and have been trying to sell for a few years now. In 2020, we decided we wanted to sell and leave London. Unfortunately we found out our flat had dangerous cladding and all other kinds of defects. We were promised that it would…
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Ground Rent On Leasehold Land
I had the property since 2017 and I was never been sent a letter to pay the ground rent. The property was given out on rent and from May 2024 Compton Group started asking for ground rent since 2017 to 2024 and letters was delivered to the rental address. The tenant living there never told me about the letters sent out by…
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Finding similar properties that match my own
Hi, I have been trying for several months now to get my council tax banding re-evaluated, but I have come to am impasse and wonder if anyone has any suggestions on how to overcome. My situation: Our flat is one of six in a 2 storey block. The block was built around 2008 on a plot that was previously occupied by a house.…
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Ground Rent due First Day of January
Hello, As the title says. I cannot afford to pay this, to be honest. I have to pay £150. Last year I asked if I could pay during March and this was granted me. Would they agree to the same thing again?
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Not eligible for Council tax reduction?
Hi all. I received a response from the Council to say I'm not eligible for a council tax reduction because my income is too high. Firstly, my monthly income is approximately £600 a month, and secondly, on the email received, it says I work 16 hours a week when it's actually 12. My savings are approximately £3400. So taking…
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post office lost my rent
Back in april 2024 i paid my rent over the counter at our local p/o, it turns out the cashier inputted the wrong acc number so the payment of £150.00 did not reach our housing association.I only found this out when i checked online our rent account to find the payment was missing (which was approx 3 weeks later) I went to…
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Rules for reclaiming Council Tax when owner in a care home
At the beginning of 2021 my elderly mother's health deteroirated to point where she was unable to live at home and moved into a care home. While there she had an operation in hospital and with the care she received in the home recovered enough for her to decide try living at home with carers again after 8 months in the…
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Council tax headache!
Hi all, I need some advice about a council tax issue that’s become a real headache. Between 2016 and 2020, I was living with my wife at X. We separated, and I moved out in January 2020. At that time, the council tax account was a joint one in both of our names, but when I left, the account was closed, and a new account was…
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Is interest due Interest on Council Tax Refund?
I have been refunded for a property banding change, for a property I lived in from 2003 to 2013. The refund was made in November 2024 and I have no paperwork from the relevant Council - they simply credited my bank account, and I had to phone the Council to track down why I'd had it. I plan to ask them for a breakdown of…
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Council Tax / HMO Banding
Hi all, I have a bit of sense of dread hanging over me, so thought I would reach out to see anyone can help me. Apologises for the very long post. I work in the lettings industry and I actually worked for an agency who owned a HMO that I lived in for a short period of time because of a relationship breakup. This period was…
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External body for delayed council tax refund.
We moved out of our property in Sept and filled in moving out form. As requested we kept DD open and council took a further payment. I phoned them and they said they were running 3 months behind on processing closing. It seems unacceptable that they can simply hold £400+ of my money for this length of time when it could be…
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Council Tax Long Term Vacant Premium
I purchased a small flat for retirement in November and I am currently serving my 3 months notice to retire at the end of April. My job requires me to live on-site and a flat is provided. I was expecting to pay £141.00 per month in council tax on my new flat, however, the Council have sent a bill for £3531.80 for 2024/25…
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Council tax is significantly cheaper in Scotland compared to England and Wales- anyone know why?
I've noticed that council tax in Scotland is considerably cheaper than in England and Wales. Does anyone know why that is? Does it cover the same things? I know that water and sewerage are added on to council tax in Scotland but not in the rest of the UK. But this only amplifies the price differences. Here's an example of…
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Council tax reclaim - Entire development banded incorrectly?
Hi All, I'm new here, and trawled through the forums to find something similar but couldn't see anything quite the same as this situation. I am about to move into a property after purchasing. The property is currently banded at a G. this particular street was a development built in 1999, and all similar houses in this…
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Mortgage lender charges insurance premiums if I don't send the building insurance policy each year
Hello. Each year my mortgage lender writes to me and asks me to send it the current insurance policy for my building. My mortgage loan has been sold on a few times and the last mortgage servicing company did not make this annual request. The mortgaged property is a flat so I don't arrange the insurance, the freeholder's…
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Council tax banding
Hello to all just joined the forum, my first post is regarding council tax banding. We purchased our present property in 1999 along with all the things to attend to and associated stress of selling and buying a property we were not made aware of appealing council tax banding. The first mention of this has been whilst…
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Rebanding of my 1958 bungalow from Band D to Band C
I looked at the house prices in my road and in 1995 one home was sold for £60k. The banding associated with Band D is approximately £68k and therefore our home which was purchased prior to 1991 should I believe be in the lower banding. Can you advise please
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Council Tax Improvements
Hi Just wondered if anyone else has come across this problem & if they were successful. My Story. I had extension to my house, as did my neighbour. My neighbour did not move out of his house during his extension, I temporarily did & stopped paying council tax for a few months as I was not occupying the house. My neighbour…
