Council Tax Rebanding SUCCESS stories

theLearner_3

Local Borough Council: South Derbyshire District Council
Council Tax Band Before: C
Council Tax Band After: B
Amount refunded: Approx £150
Annual saving going forward: £148

A little more work than i expected, but really worth it in the end. Moved into my first house in August 06, saw Martins programme on Tv and started looking into it. Ended up going to Tribunal which was a bit daunting, but did the prep/research beforehand and found out today that we won! Yippee

Thanks Martin

Keith1956

Hi John 496

You might like to see my earlier posts. Write to the Customer Service Manager at your local VOA first. Then to the Chief Executive's Office ,New Court,Carey Street,London WC2A 2JE if you are refused by your local VOA. I received £563 back in interest so it is worth doing.

Good luck.

Keith

glevoo

MSE_Archna wrote: »

This thread is especially for reporting your successes in getting your council tax rebanded plus refunds.

:money:

The aim is to show others that it works.

Please report your successes here, if possible in the format:

Colchester Borough Council:
Council Tax Band Before: G
Council Tax Band After: F
Amount refunded: £1256
Annual saving going forward: Direct Debit reduced by £50 per month
Whole process took just under 3 months

• Read the article
  Council Tax Cashback
  
  
• Discuss the issues
  Discussion on Council Tax Cost Cutting

IMPORTANT NOTE! This thread is only to report succcesses

Please note this thread is ONLY for reporting successes/experiences. It isn't for answering questions, discussing what to do, or postulating on the general issues; any posts of that nature will be deleted. If you want to do that please instead go to the Discussion on Council Tax Cost Cutting

Brilliant everyone should try

ruthT_2

Local Borough Council: West Lancashire
Council Tax Band Before: B
Council Tax Band After:A
Amount refunded:?
Annual saving going forward:?

Its been a fairly long process for us but finally a success! First found out that we were in the wrong council tax band at the end of April this year when talking to a neighbour. Got in touch with the valuation office via webform and were initially refused on the ground that we did not apply within the time frame. First of all who would expect to be in the wrong band and as first time buyers back in 2001 were not really clued up on all this. Sent a letter back to the VOA appealing against this decision. 1 month passed still heard nothing so chased again via e-mail. Now almost 3 months later our council tax banding has been changed. Not sure what the next step is now - assume the VOA will write to confirm this

MARL0WE

Hi All

Another victory, very easy to follow, successfully changed from C to B letter came this morning to confirm - expecting refund as described dating back to 1993!!

Expecting estimated £1500 - £2000 refund:rotfl:
Tameside MBC

Martin - Thank you, you've saved me ****loads!!:rotfl:

dean1920

Local Borough: Sedgefield
Band Before : D
Band After : D

We followed instructions on website and found that all houses in our street were band D except for the 2 houses next to me which were band C. I found this strange as the 2 houses (band C) although originally 3 bedrooms have been extended somewhat, and have had new owners since the extensions were carried out. I have a 3 bedroom detached as have a few of my neighbours(who incidentally are also band D) but there are also houses with 5 bedrooms also on band D!!!
I spoke to our local evaluation office who stated they understood our point of view and would pass it on to the valuation officer. I was also told that as I had lived at property for more than 6 months I could not appeal his decision.
Today I received a letter refusing the re-banding and although acknowledging other properties were somewhat larger he pointed out that 3 similar dwellings had been refused appeal in 1993 and he was also of the opinion my house was in the band d valuation as at 1991(£10,000 more than the value when we used the calculator on this website) .
Can anybody offer any advice ?

sandrashaw

Local Borough: charnwood borough council leicestershire
Band before c
Band After : b

just got £1200 quid back just a phone call away go for it ! no c/tax this year to pay yipee!

nobbynomates

Stockport Borough Council:
Council Tax Band Before: C
Council Tax Band After: B
Amount refunded: £980.00

Followed the instruction from this site, checked our road too see if anyone was in a lower band, next door was in band B.

Completed the online claims form. Received a reply after 2 weeks, that they would look at into the claim.

3 weeks after that received a letter that we were being moved to band B.

1 month later received a cheque for £980.00 What a Result!!

Big thanks to Martin and Team for posting this information.

bb999

Bradford Council
Previous band B
New band A
Refund £1278


I managed to reclaim this for my parents.
Really easy.....
Phone call to valuations office & gave all details.
Approx 4 weeks later, letter confirming rebanding.
email to council requsting refund.
Parent recd. refund about 1 week later.

Stunned at how easy it has been!

birchvale

Thanks - Just got over £2k back. But if I had got interest on the money outsanding each year at say 4% a year since 1991, it would have been twice as much ! Does anyone know whether it is possible to get paid compensation for this -rather than just the council tax as it was paid ? Obviously what I got was good but unfair as a quid in 2007 is not the same quid that it was in the early 90's it woon't go nearly as far.

Birchvale, Macc

MSE_Archna wrote: »

This thread is especially for reporting your successes in getting your council tax rebanded plus refunds.

The aim is to show others that it works.

Please report your successes here, if possible in the format:

Local Borough Council:
Council Tax Band Before:
Council Tax Band After:
Amount refunded:
Annual saving going forward:

Plus if possible a few details on your experiences.

• Read the article
  Council Tax Cashback
• Discuss the issues
  Discussion on Council Tax Cost Cutting

IMPORTANT NOTE! This thread is only to report succcesses

Please note this thread is ONLY for reporting successes/experiences. It isn't for answering questions, discussing what to do, or postulating on the general issues; any posts of that nature will be deleted. If you want to do that please instead go to the Discussion on Council Tax Cost Cutting