Can you 'whistleblow' an incorrect council tax band (neighbours)

Sillychuckie

Hah...
I almost forgot that I had even asked this question but suddenly remembered this morning to check back on it. It has been amusing reading through all your replies, thanks. Quite a hot topic. :rotfl:

I thought that it was just a genuine error which might have been overlooked when the house was rebuilt, but, by the sounds of things, the process can be more complicated and often depend on the property changing hands.
I agree it isn't evasion, so will leave things alone. I probably didn't word my question very well to get that across.

Looking again, most of the new builds on the street are band H, so I suspect when this does eventually change hands, it will go from F to H, but until then, as you say, not my business.

Cheers all.
SC

phoebe1989seb

Ithaca wrote: »

We moved last year from a small 2-bed terrace to a larger 4-bed detached.

The morning after our move we were still consuming exactly the same level of services we did before - same amount of household waste, same use of road and libraries, kids are in the same schools as before. But we're paying a boatload more in Council Tax than if we'd stayed put but without placing any extra burden on Council services.

We're in the opposite situation. Our last house (5 beds) was band C - 2500 sq ft after we'd added a kitchen extension. When we sold - as I said previously - it was put up to band E.

Current 4 bed house - just over 1900 sq ft - is band G and tons more to pay than previous house. It hasn't been extended since 1924.

Go figure

AdrianC

phoebe1989seb wrote: »

We're in the opposite situation. Our last house (5 beds) was band C - 2500 sq ft after we'd added a kitchen extension. When we sold - as I said previously - it was put up to band E.

Current 4 bed house - just over 1900 sq ft - is band G and tons more to pay than previous house. It hasn't been extended since 1924.

Go figure

Banding isn't based on floor area or when work was done. It's based on the nominal 1991 value. A small house in one area may well have been a lot more valuable in 1991 than a large house in another area. That difference may well be different in today's value...

A few years ago, we sold a small house in the SE and moved to a large house in the Welsh borders. We down-sized massively in terms of price.
Both houses sold within a few months of each other in 1998 - at that time, the larger house was more expensive - and it's had a substantial extension since then.

We later found that this house had also sold within a few months of the nominal 1991 valuation date - and the unextended price then was right on the border between the band it was in and the band it's now in, extended.

katiekatz

dont do it op, the council will find out eventually anyway. They are lucky here and you are i am sure in other ways

seven-day-weekend

cjdavies wrote: »

The only that need changing is the 25% for single occupants, should be 50%

Why? You don't get 50% of the services. You still get your bin emptied at the same time as everyone else, for example.

To the OP, I would just get on with your life and care about something important.

phoebe1989seb

AdrianC wrote: »

Banding isn't based on floor area or when work was done. It's based on the nominal 1991 value. A small house in one area may well have been a lot more valuable in 1991 than a large house in another area. That difference may well be different in today's value...

A few years ago, we sold a small house in the SE and moved to a large house in the Welsh borders. We down-sized massively in terms of price.
Both houses sold within a few months of each other in 1998 - at that time, the larger house was more expensive - and it's had a substantial extension since then.

We later found that this house had also sold within a few months of the nominal 1991 valuation date - and the unextended price then was right on the border between the band it was in and the band it's now in, extended.

Yes, I appreciate that, but having used Martin's guide to getting CT rebanded I found that the previous house (the one we extended that went from band C to E after we sold) would have been most likely a band C in 1991, whilst our current house (band G) would most likely have been band E.......

Moreover, whilst there are some very large properties on our lane (twice the size and value of ours, yet same CT band), overall this is a cheaper/slightly less desirable area than where we were before.

moneyistooshorttomention

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

Why? You don't get 50% of the services. You still get your bin emptied at the same time as everyone else, for example.

To the OP, I would just get on with your life and care about something important.

We've been through all that.

- Only one person using the Council's library
- One person's amount of rubbish that the Council has to find a way of disposing of
- One person going to all the free music, etc, events the Council funds (that will be none then for some of us:( - like me now for instance - but would have been a lot in my last area)
- One person's car using the roads

etc etc