can I avoid council tax?

stintond

I moved out of my mortgaged house in Nov , and they gave me 6 months council tax free because the house was empty , now they want to charge me half the cost every month , someone said there was a way to avoid it altogether , any ideas appreciated.

gettingbetter

hi

dont think so

you need to pay it
they and HMRC are the only
2 that i know that will make you BR

only know you need to pay

cause my parent had a house that they didnt
live in for ten months
and only got 6 months free
then went on to half CT

kas xx

peachyprice

The only way to get out of it altogether is when it's officially repossessed, but not necessarily sold, so it doesn't matter if it takes another year to sell, once it's official it's the banks problem. Or if the OR takes it as an asset.

stintond

thanks for the reply but my question was whether the house will be handed over at the court date or whether it takes another month or so for the bank to repossess after that

JCS1

stintond wrote: »

thanks for the reply but my question was whether the house will be handed over at the court date or whether it takes another month or so for the bank to repossess after that

I think that question was in another thread you have started, rather than this one.

I believe it's a "how long is a piece of string" question.

peachyprice

stintond wrote: »

I moved out of my mortgaged house in Nov , and they gave me 6 months council tax free because the house was empty , now they want to charge me half the cost every month , someone said there was a way to avoid it altogether , any ideas appreciated.

Was it

powell16

hello

we went to court for repossesion 14th june and the house will be actually handed over on the 9th july so ours will be roughly a month.

stintond

sorry , I got my posts mixed up , its just that the council are demanding that I pay half council on this property we had which is soon to be repossessed , but I thought there was some letter or something that you can write to avoid paying the tax altogether.
Anyone got any ideas?

peachyprice

There isn't a letter to avoid paying council tax altogether.

You write to them when the property is unoccupied for your 6 months rebate, which you've aleady had, after that you liable for full CT up to the date of repo.

Council tax is calculated at a daily rate, so once the mortgage company has taken possession you can send them a letter asking for an accurate closing bill.

You're going to have to pay it until you get your repo date. If you don't you'll end up back in court, and the debt won't be included in your BR.

yellowmonkey

Dont mean to be negative but why are most of your threads about " How can I avoid/not pay".

ym

philnicandamy

took the words right out of my mouth YM....:rolleyes:

And the thing that puzzles me as well....you start a post & halfway through try to change things around....