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Landlord wants me to pay him for council tax?
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Its a tax fiddle.
He's not declaring the rent to HMRC for income tax and does not want HMRC to know he does not live there and is renting out.
He also won't have Consent To Let from his mortgage lender (which makes you vulnerable if they repossess for mortgage arrears).
Chase up the deposit registration by writing and asking for the scheme details.0 -
Cheeky_Monkey wrote: »That is most definitely not true where I live. When my daughter moved out, I claimed single occupier discount. The council wrote to me sometime after saying that they had compared records with the electoral register and asking if my daughter had moved back in as I hadn't crossed her name off.
Likewise. My mother was told she couldn't claim single occupier discount because I was on the electoral register there. I had to write and explain that, as a student, I was allowed to be registered at 2 addresses for voting, but not counted at either for council tax!0
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