Council Tax Valuation

crazyhazel

Martin what have you done!!!

After watching you last night on TV I logged on to www.voa.gov.uk website to get for free my banding and the website is down due to higher than normal traffic!!!

Anything to do with you?

Rikki

Probably.:rotfl:

System

I work in Council Tax and am expecting a lot more of a workload next week!!!

Seakay

We are currently experiencing a higher demand than usual for our website. If you are unable to access the pages you require at the moment, please try again later.

If you have a query about your council tax band, please contact your local Valuation Office, where staff will be able to answer your questions. Contact details can be found in the telephone directory under 'Valuation Office Agency' or 'Valuation Office' (for England and Wales).

Taxpayers with enquiries about properties in Scotland should contact the Scottish Assessors.

now_a_mum&skint

How do you measure whether your banding is fair?

now_a_mum&skint

I recently suggested that Martin should be considered for a knighthood, his reply to that was........perhaps the banks would raise an objection,:rotfl: :rotfl: hehehe, now I think he may have upset councils in every region in he country and the government will be in shock :rotfl: :rotfl: POWER TO THE PEOPLE XXXXX

pingua

Well good !! If people have been overcharged they have a right to do somthing about it. If things had been done right in the first place they would not be in this situation.(I really do feel for these people who work in these depts though.)


Our council Tax band is too high. When I looked a few months ago about getting it re-valued it said somthing about if you had moved there over 6 mths ago there was nothing you could do about it??? Maybe got the wrong end of the stick but as we are moving I am not pushing it. Our new house is awaiting a re-valuation as it had an extension on it!! But still it should not go up a band. If they try it I will object.

System

pingua wrote:

When I looked a few months ago about getting it re-valued it said somthing about if you had moved there over 6 mths ago there was nothing you could do about it??? Maybe got the wrong end of the stick but as we are moving I am not pushing it..

Are you in scotland by any chance?

There is a strict timescale for appeals against banding here, it's different to England, iirc it's 6 months from date of purchase or from when it was assesed.

crazyhazel

now_a_mum&skint wrote:

How do you measure whether your banding is fair?

Last night on the telly Martin said you can check your band and for instance your neighbours banding. If they are a different band to you but the house is basically the same then you have a bit of power to appeal.

He did also say that when they revalue it can just as easily go up as well as down!! So any action taken from the valuation is down to you

hth

pingua

There was also a link to a house valuation thing. Put in your house value and click on a date and it would give a guide of what it would have been worth on that date - Ist quater of 1991 or whatever.
Follow the link from the main article. Thats how I found it all.

Not in Scotland but perhaps I read the scottish one?????

Tetsuko

Damn https://www.voa.gov.uk is still down. And I wouldn't be surprised if my house is a band lower than it currently is.