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Council Tax on annex advice!
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You are suggesting fraud ?I would convert one of the kitchens into a utility room by taking out the cooker and cooker point. After the inspection, if your guests have to have access to more than a microwave and a toaster, get the cooker re-installed. The electrician's fees involved are going to be a lot less than two lots of council tax.0 -
The previous B&B was probably paying business rates, not council tax - which is a whole different ballgame.0
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I would convert one of the kitchens into a utility room by taking out the cooker and cooker point. After the inspection, if your guests have to have access to more than a microwave and a toaster, get the cooker re-installed. The electrician's fees involved are going to be a lot less than two lots of council tax.
Good idea to make it a utility room. I have read that this extra kitchen is upstairs I think - it is apparently very common in the US to have a utility room upstairs as it saves all the washing going down to wash then back up again to put away! (I suppose if you want to put it out to dry you just chuck it all out the window, or perhaps some sort of laundry basket on a pulley?!)
Now I am wondering what makes a kitchen officially ... a kitchen!? Is it just the oven? Perhaps your guests could use one of those little desk top units ... Or you could cook for them!0 -
Good idea to make it a utility room. I have read that this extra kitchen is upstairs I think - it is apparently very common in the US to have a utility room upstairs as it saves all the washing going down to wash then back up again to put away! (I suppose if you want to put it out to dry you just chuck it all out the window, or perhaps some sort of laundry basket on a pulley?!)
Now I am wondering what makes a kitchen officially ... a kitchen!? Is it just the oven? Perhaps your guests could use one of those little desk top units ... Or you could cook for them!
It's the cooker point and the cooker in my experience - I've just knocked 2 houses into 1 so I had to do this and turn 1 kitchen into a utility.0
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