Council tax when leaving a rented house

benjus

jjlandlord wrote: »

Council tax liability has nothing to do with a tenancy being a statutory periodic AST.
While the broad message is correct they managed to add several incorrect points.

For a discussion of the actual law, see:
https://lettingmate.uk/book/7-council-tax

That link just confirms what was said in the other link:

Therefore, a tenant who is no longer resident only remains liable for council tax until the end of the tenancy if that tenancy is for a term of at least 6 months.

If the tenancy is a periodic tenancy, including a statutory periodic tenancy, and the period is less than 6 months, then the landlord becomes liable for council tax as soon as the tenant is no longer resident, even if the tenancy continues.

jjlandlord

Not quite as, again, this has nothing to do with the tenancy being a SPT, which is what the quote in G_M's post suggests.

If you compare the two quotes you notice that they are not saying exactly the same.

This may not look like much but that is how incorrect information spreads and creates more issues.
Especially when the actual explanation is equally simple.

benjus

jjlandlord wrote: »

Not quite as, again, this has nothing to do with the tenancy being a SPT, which is what the quote in G_M's post suggests.

If you compare the two quotes you notice that they are not saying exactly the same.

This may not look like much but that how incorrect information spreads and creates more issues.
Especially when the actual explanation is equally simple.

Ok, I take your point.

bouicca21

When I moved out of my rental into my owned flat I paid council tax on both properties for about two weeks. So according to the above I could have disputed the payment of two weeks on the empty rental, as it was an SPT and had been for nearly a year?

jjlandlord

Any decent tenancy agreement makes the tenant liable to the landlord, so you would have had to pay one way or another.

Sintara

Hi, just in case anyone else is in a similar position and sees this I simply rang my local council (old house) and explained I was moving. Have them the date I moved out and the date of end of tenancy. I've just had the final bill through and they gave me a 100% deduction from the date I moved out. It specifies in the notes the end of tenancy date too so they definitely understood. Nice surprise as it was almost £200 less than I was expecting as a result