Can you reclaim for wrong council tax band if you no longer own the house?! 29 May 2018 at 2:21PM in Reclaiming mortgage fees, council tax, etc 3 replies 1K views

Whitehaven85

I hope you someone can help!!
I bought my house from my mother in law 2 years ago, having heard martin Lewis talk about council tax bands I checked ours as soon as we moved in and found that we were the only house on our road that was on band E, the other were all band D! We managed to successfully appeal, have had our house lowered to a D and have saved ourselves lots of money!!

So here is my question. My mother in law (the previous owner) paid band E prices the whole time she owned the property (less than 10 years) when she should have been paying band D, is she able to claim back over payments?
Any advice on this would be fab!!

lincroft1710

Yes, your mother-in-law can ask for a refund of any overpayment of Council Tax

Whitehaven85

Do you happen to know how we go about that??
TIA

lincroft1710

Your mother in law just needs to contact the council and give them the relevant details of her occupation of the house