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first home-council tax question
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They randomly make it up.
New builds near me are band c. I think thats mad.
You can apply to have the band changed. There's a huge bit about it on this site somewhere0 -
They value it today against comparable property and then work out what the value would have been in 1991 or whenever using a House Price Index.
In most cases the bands are pretty wide so they do not need a great deal of accuracy. I think all property is one of the bands A, B, C, D, E, F, G,H,
When they did the first valuation of all the property in the country they did "Drive by Valuations" In many cases all the houses in a road would be put in the same band................................I have put my clock back....... Kcolc ym0 -
Robert Sterling has not got it quite right. House Price Indices are NOT used to work out Council Tax bands. New built properties are compared with nearby existing properties of a similar type and size. The Valuation Office Agency is responsible for CT banding in England and Wales and has details of virtually every property sale in GB, so they know what property sold for around 1 April 1991, which is date for CT valuations.
The bands are not all "pretty wide", band span for B is only £12,000, C is £16,000, it is only when you get to F (£40,000) and G (£160,000) are they wide. Despite what you may read VOA do try to give each property an accurate band, but for a number of reasons do not always succeed.If you are querying your Council Tax band would you please state whether you are in England, Scotland or Wales0 -
This reminds me of my boyfriend who insists that if you have a house with, say, 3 rooms upstairs but you're only using one of them as a bedroom, then it's called a 1 bedroom house :rotfl:0
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