Council tax question

tizhimi

ILW wrote: »

I would suggest that if you have not sold in 8 months the house must be overpriced or something wrong with it. On that basis it is not truly for sale.

:eek: :beer: handbags at dawn!:beer: :eek:

goodness me, there is a ressession on and houses are not selling fullstop.

As for the council tax - you've just got to pay up I'm afraid. :beer:

ILW

tizhimi wrote: »

:eek: :beer: handbags at dawn!:beer: :eek:

goodness me, there is a ressession on and houses are not selling fullstop.

As for the council tax - you've just got to pay up I'm afraid. :beer:

Houses are selling if priced realistically.

CIS

All fair and all correct. Sorry but you won't get far complaining to the Council and I have a feeling the discount is discretionary anyway so might do more harm than good complaining.

The discount is set in statute and isn't discretionary. The council can vary the rate within a framework of 0% - 50% discount but must choose 1 rate and apply it all cases when the property remains unoccupied and unfurnished after the end of the 6 month class c exemption.

Worth noting though, I did discuss with the council, if you moved in and out again quite quickly, you can trigger the empty discount again (I was worried if tenants moved out after 6 months would I be picking up 90% of the bill but the discount would start again).

There needs to be a 6 week period of occupancy before the Class C is available again in full - anything less than 6 weeks and you would only get the remainder of any Class C that hasn't been claimed already.