Landlord is not happy with me signing into the Electoral Roll

atolaas

Especially with a General Election coming up, it was naïve of your LL to expect the Electoral Roll not to be checked. Even if you had not said anything to your council, you would have received a letter from them to query who and how many eligible voters lived at your address. You've signed a tenancy agreement so he can't just raise the rent on a whim. Wait till the end of your contract and move on. You've done nothing wrong. Your LL is at fault, not you.

moneyistooshorttomention

Guess that means two things actually:

- the landlord is claiming the Single Person Discount on Council Tax

- the landlord isn't declaring the rental income received to HMRC. NB: The rent-a-room scheme may mean that he doesn't receive enough rent to have to pay any tax anyway, but I'm guessing he receives more rental income from the house than the rent-a-room limit (which is somewhere around £4,000 or so a year. I cant recall the exact figure).

Add those two facts together and it may be as well for you to have an eye out for somewhere else to live if possible (ie because he is not going to be a happy bunny with you).

jjlandlord

sofarbehind wrote: »

That's terrible.

The 2011 Tsunami in Japan was terrible.
This is a slight issue.

Gordon_Hose

The LL can swivel:

The law makes it compulsory to provide information to an electoral registration officer for inclusion in the full register. The details you are likely to have to provide are your name, address, national insurance number, nationality and age.

https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/electoral-register/

[STRIKE]Unfortunately, now you may be due a rent increase or a S.21 notice.[/STRIKE]

Pixie5740

Gordon_Hose wrote: »

Unfortunately, now you may be due a rent increase or a S.21 notice.

Not really because the OP is a lodger. The resident LL can easily put the rent up or tell the OP to leave but then again it's just as easy for the OP to tell his/her tax dodging LL to poke it.

Gordon_Hose

Pixie5740 wrote: »

Not really because the OP is a lodger. The resident LL can easily put the rent up or tell the OP to leave but then again it's just as easy for the OP to tell his/her tax dodging LL to poke it.

Oh, sorry - completely missed that bit! :beer:

stator

What does your contract say about rent increases or evictions?

Jhoney_2

atolaas wrote: »

Especially with a General Election coming up, it was naïve of your LL to expect the Electoral Roll not to be checked. Even if you had not said anything to your council, you would have received a letter from them to query who and how many eligible voters lived at your address. You've signed a tenancy agreement so he can't just raise the rent on a whim. Wait till the end of your contract and move on. You've done nothing wrong. Your LL is at fault, not you.

Quite. But the process regarding electoral registration has recently changed and it is down to the individual to register else they can be fined - so you would have eventually had this problem anyway!

A LL who is upset with you doing what is necessary, and deliberately and fraudulently claiming CT relief is not a LL worth having.

I know it's a pain trying to find places to live, but there is a considerable rental market in London, Don't settle for this shoddy option.

ognum

The most important point here is that you are allowed to use your right to vote. We should never ever give up that right, many people fought long and hard for women and the enslaved to get the right, do not feel sorry for someone who takes away that right.

The second point is your LL is defrauding all of us, not only is he not paying for the services that's he and the others in his home use he is possibly not paying tax on the income he receives.

Do not feel sorry for him!

dodger1

Forgetting the type of LL how much extra are we talking about? The single person discount divided by the two lodgers won't be very much per week surely.