Daughter travelling, council refuses council tax reduction

lincroft1710

Bob - as I don't use my car very often, I have often thought what is now the French system far more preferable, although I am sure whichever party in power could not be trusted to calculate fuel duty so that collectively we weren't paying more than we would have been under the present system.

lincroft1710

geri - they certainly want to know where you were living previously as that is how one council discovered a house which had not been assessed for CT and the previous occ got a backdated bill for about 6 yrs CT. And he paid up!

the_optimist

Bob_the_Saver wrote: »

Sorry to OP the-optimist for straying from the point.

I leave you to it, then

The funny thing is, that my daughter moved in with her boyfriend 2 years ago. Then my son went back to college. We'd just sorted out the council tax reduction for 2 months, when daughter split up with boyfriend and moved back. So back to the council to change it again.
So, even when they do give a new address there's no guarantee that they come back, how do I know what she'll do next???

Ah well, it was worth a try.

CHW

lincroft1710 wrote: »

elfen - no doubt CIS will correct me if I am wrong but if someone notifies the council they are moving out, the council require them to provide their new address. If she's under 18 it doesn't actually matter as she's exempt from CT payments.

The Council WILL ask for a forwarding address, but they will not refuse to grant a discount if one cannot be provided- there are numerous life partner breakups that happen every day where one person does not know where the other has gone and a discount will not be refused in these circumstances.

CIS

It depends on the council - when my mum passed away we were told no grace period while the property was furnished, but we would receive a 10% discount should we empty the property for a maximum of 6 months, then it would revert to the full amount due.

In your case I expect the 6 month Class F probate exemption (irrespective of being furnished or unfurnished)was awarded therefore a Class C exemption could not be given as the property had been unfurnished for a period of 6 month or more. Once any exemption for an unoccupied and furnished period has ended then the council can apply between 50% and 0% discount (depending on the local authority)

CHW

CIS wrote: »

In your case I expect the 6 month Class F probate exemption (irrespective of being furnished or unfurnished)was awarded therefore a Class C exemption could not be given as the property had been unfurnished for a period of 6 month or more. Once any exemption for an unoccupied and furnished period has ended then the council can apply between 50% and 0% discount (depending on the local authority)

I was a bit surprised by this as I'd have expected the post probate 6 months exemption to be granted as well. (obviously furniture is not counted within the F exemptions)

It sounds from the point made that the chap's mum died and he was immediately put onto a full charge as the beneficiary although I'm sure the relevent exemption would have been applied pre-probate, the question I'd be asking is, did he receive the post probate 6 months before deeds were transferred? too many variabels here to be sure either way.