Council tax

loulou41

Does anybody know whether your council tax is highter if you bought a house with a conservatory? Also is a terraced house counted the same like a semi for council tax purposes. I have just seen a house but it has a massive conservatory and I am a bit concerned whether it will push the council tax higher. Thanks

happenstance

Isn't the banding of properties done on their price? So if a conservatory pushes the price up into a higher council tax band then you will pay more.

edwara

Also be warned that the current band for the house may not be correct. If the work (extension etc) has been done since the last sale then the rebanding would only happen when you buy the property. It takes a while and is back dated to your purchase date. This is according to the final contract report we have just received from our solicitor. Have a feeling this is what is going to happen to us! Oh joy of joys - only good thing is that we are movnig to a cheaper council tax area

silvercar

Use this site to search for your council tax band and that of your neighbours:

http://www.voa.gov.uk/council_tax/cti_home.htm

Robert_Sterling

As the above link points out the band that a property is based in depends on what the property was worth in 1991.
For properties built since 1991 the value of the property, for council tax purposes, is what the coucil thinks its value would have been in 1991 if it had existed in 1991.

Proffesor_Plum

I thought the government had said they were not going to penalise us for improving our homes by increasing the council tax band, it seems really sneaky that they are now reviewing the tax band when there's a transaction, so if I have budgeted for a band E house in Richmondshire that has been extended I suddenly find I've bought a Band F house and my bill has risen from £1763 to an extortionate £2084 , also my existing house will be harder to sell as it will be rebanded from C to D as I bothered to extend it, this seems to have been introduced very quietly and has snuck under the radar without any fuss.

Proffesor_Plum

I thought the government had said they were not going to penalise us for improving our homes by increasing the council tax band, it seems really sneaky that they are now reviewing the tax band when there's a transaction, so if I have budgeted for a band E house in Richmondshire that has been extended I suddenly find I've bought a Band F house and my bill has risen from £1763 to an extortionate £2084 , this seems to have been introduced very quietly and has snuck under the radar without any fuss.

Curv

We had to have our banding reviewed following our purchase last December. We were really concerned as our solicitor hadn't mentioned the possibility of a review during our purchase.

We fully expected to be re-banded as the extensions were a conservatory, a garage conversion to a habitable room and building an additional storey over the garage creating a new master bedroom and large en-suite.

I'm pleased to report that the banding has stayed the same.

clutton_2

a full nationwide rebanding was due a couple of years back, and Tony Blair bottled it and told local authorities to cancel it - this is a sneaky back door method for local authoriteies to get a bit more money

poppysarah

Our council tax hadn't gone up this year. The labour group had crowed about how wonderful they were at budgeting when in reality they've had extra council tax from hundreds of extra properties (Who share everything existing apart from refuse collection which costs £100 per house a year)

And they've banded 3 bed houses as band c when the area is full of band a 3 beds.

bo_drinker

If as mentioned in property threads there will be a property crash then it will pay to get a re banding as valuations will plummet, not my opinion, that of others on here.Also like the government the local authority want as much of your hard earned as they can get, and more...