Council Tax Cost Cutting: reduce your band and grab any discounts Discussion Area

lincroft1710

bugoff 40- Council Tax bands are based on what a property was worth in Apr 1991 (Eng and Scot) Apr 2003 (Wales). The loss of the garage may either not have been enough to reduce the value of your home into the next band or someone has forgotten to adjust the council tax band. A further possibility is that as it was previously a mechanic's workshop it could have been rated as such and was not in fact reflected in the CT band. You will have to check with your local Valuation Office Agency (Eng and Wales) or Assessor (Scot).

With regard to the mundic, it is not the actual presence of mundic, but how much would the presence of mundic have affected the 1991/2003 value of the property and if so would it push the property's value into a lower band.

general_langsdorf

We moved to our current property in 2005, however we remain under the same local authority (Kirklees). Our rebanding was done automatically and we received a rebate and now pay less every month.
Does anybody know if we can claim back any council tax overpayments we may have made on the previous property?

lincroft1710

General L - just because the band on your current home has been reduced, it does not automatically follow that the band of your former home has been reduced.

Only the present occupier of a dwelling can ask for a rebanding. So unless they (or a previous occupier to them) have successfully challenged the band of your former home and it has been reduced, or it was reduced as consequential upon the rebanding of a similar dwelling, you are not due any money back.

general_langsdorf

Is there any way to check whether it has changed as I can't remember what band it was when we lived there?

lincroft1710

Go to http://www.voa.gov.uk/council_tax/cti_home.htm and follow instructions to find CT band for your former home. Click on the entry for the band details, then click on "view banding history".

general_langsdorf

Unfortunately our old house has remained the same band

lincroft1710

The only thing you can do is contact current occupier and ask them if they would challenge their CT band. However, even if they do there is no guarantee it would be reduced.

sivanat

hi
I cheked valuation and neighbours band.

My house ( Band E )end of terrassed house (3 houses)

My 2 neighbours one neighbour is Band D
other neighbour is Band D (but band review binding It was E band,)

other side neighbours houses SEMI DETTACHED HOUSE ,theres band is E and I think size look like bigger than me.


My valuation is 67.800 My Neighbours Band D
Its smiller my house,and I have no extention,other two houses
have extention.

I call the valuation office and then send the form I want fillup and return to them.
I want your help for good valuable sentense for following this section,
MY REASON FOR BELIVING THAT THE VALUATION LIST IS INACCURATE ARE,

thx
sivanat

the_chicken_lady

Hi there,
we bought our tiny detached house in 1999 for 72k (it was actually valued at 69k but we paid the extra to get it as the market was going mad at the time) it's worth about 225k today and needs quite a lot of work still.
We are in band D, our immediate neighbours in the only other house are in C , their house is identical but has a large conservatory added and the original wash-house part which has been pulled down on ours.Whilst researching, I noticed they were re-banded to a C in 1993. It's a unadopted road, (which also makes us think we should pay less as we have to repair our own road!)The other 4 properties are bungalows, the highest being worth 325k, lowest about 220k, all are in band D.
Our house is tiny, a 5' x7' kitchen and 2 and a half bedrooms (we had to saw the bed down to get it in the 3rd room!)
Ive just phoned my local council and been fobbed off with 'house prices fell from 1991 to 1999 so you will probably go up a band' and telling me that is is very likely that my neighbours will go up and I will stay the same....talk about laying on the guilt!!!
luckily I had some good answers for all her silly comments like 'the nationwide website is incorrect, the house next door is smaller,(its bigger) if it had an extension we wouldn't know about it...(yes you would..you granted planning permission!!) and house prices fell in the 90s (I remember them rising rapidly..?? please let me know if I'm wrong)
A letter will be in the post from the valuation people, so I will wait with baited breath.
I'd love to hear if anyone else has encountered this and the outcome.
Please wish us luck..we missed out on 6 grands worth of bank charges, so I'm hoping to get more luck with this!!

newsgroup_monkey

Thanks for adding this to the weekly mail. I am going to wait and see what happens, however, I've been in my house 3 years.

Ours is one of the only houses in the street that has not been extended and yet mine and only one other are band C when everyone else is band B.

i've filled out the form AND sent a letter and I'll wait to hear back.....

It's funny because currently I'm paying no council tax because my OH who is a full-time student didn't get her discount for over a year (clerical error apparently) and they owe me lots of money in back-pay. It'll be even funnier if they start owing me even more!