Water rate reduction

marianm2001

hey,

I have just been succesfull in reducing my council tax banding. Does anybody know can you get a rebate and reduction from the water rates as I believe they are linked to the council tax banding.

Many thanks

Maz

ariba10

We had a rate reduction but the water company would not alter their assessment.

They claimed it was not based on rateable value, but they would not reveal what it was based on.

Cardew

ariba10 wrote: »

We had a rate reduction but the water company would not alter their assessment.

They claimed it was not based on rateable value, but they would not reveal what it was based on.

This has been covered so many times.

Council Tax banding has no connection to Rateable Value(RV). Your house could be in Band A or Band H and your unmetered water charges would remain the same.

The water companies had(and have) absolutely no influence on the RV of your property.

The RV of a property(which you can find on your Water Bill) was last fixed for the majority of houses in 1973 and the RV system finished in 1990. - obviously if your property was built between 1973 and 1990 the RV was fixed then.

The value of the RV was based on the notional rental value that your property could command and not the value. It tended to give older properties a much lower RV than newer properties. For instance it could allocate a low RV to a huge old unmodernised mansion with several acres of grounds, because nobody would want to rent it; yet give a modern 3 bed estate semi a higher RV. The mansion could now be Band H and the semi Band B for council tax purposes, but the semi would still have higher unmeasured water charges.

nomorec

one way to reduce your water rate is to use the gray water from your property that is surface water from roof gutters collect it and plumb it in to flush toilets a bit of cash outlay at first but your rates are reduced, by how much depends on your water provider if you have a soakaway instead of being connected to foul water drain you can get reduction for that as well