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Council Tax - New 150% rate?

John_Pierpoint · 2013-01-12 04:54:07

While flicking through the local free rag, before it becomes a bird cage liner, I noticed one of those small ads, that have to be advertised for legal reasons. It appeared to be a warning from my local authority that it intended to impose a 150% rate of council tax on empty property. Is this a new power to tax on the part…

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Savvy_Sue Posts: 47,442 Forumite

2 March 2013 at 12:06AM

Even if no CT is being paid, I think that a zero bill would be issued if it was currently on the register, especially as I'm sure the council would want to check at regular intervals whether or not the property was inhabited. John, I'd ask whoever receives the correspondence about this property whether or not bills are issued!

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