Council tax

ajm120red

I live on an unadopted road which has to be repaired by each homewowner on our street and we have limited street lights. We also have no connection to main's sewage. It costs us approx £100.00 a month to empty our cesspool. Can anyone help me I am trying to appeal my council tax band increase from C to D. Has anyone had experience of appealing on this basis ?

HappyMJ

Why are they increasing the tax band? They should have a reason and it certainly isn't the road or sewage services being improved.

CIS

It costs us approx £100.00 a month to empty our cesspool. Can anyone help me I am trying to appeal my council tax band increase from C to D. Has anyone had experience of appealing on this basis ?

You would have to show that the value of the property is only that of a Band C property, can you show any evidence of similar properties in your area ?.

Previous appeals can be viewed here - http://info.valuation-tribunals.gov.uk/ .

John_Pierpoint

Which country are you in?
What triggered of the re-banding of your property?

camlo

How many properties are on your road?? We are in a similar situation with 7 houses and I arrange for the septic tank to be emptied no more than 6 monthly (we have a biodisc).
I successfully appealed my banding some yrs ago on the basis of similar properties being less (and also that my house is the smallest by far on our road but was put at same as others). Waste disposal wasn't mentioned if i recall.

John_Pierpoint

A cess pit is not the same thing as a septic tank.

I had a cess pit that used to get a subsidised emptying fee.
Then the vast majority of my neighbours were put on a brand new sewer and "Shell" won a court case that said if you did not receive sewerage services then you did not need to pay for them (Roughly speaking it costs the same to take away the sewerage as it costs to deliver the drinking water.)
Everything is now "privatised" and run on a commercial basis, a meter cube of "water" weighs a tonne - so look at you annual water bill and work out what it costs to have that taken away in a lorry.

Now I pay half a water bill & have a septic tank that I've not had emptied in 20 years; so my foundations are less likely to dry out and crack, and I win prizes for my vegetables;)