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Council Tax banding question - advice please?
Gilly2100
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4 houses all in a row.
All same size - 3 are in one band, 1 is in a higher band.
Lower 3 are original owners.
Higher 1 is a sale 12 years ago.
All still same house.
Why is CT band different?
Thought CT banding were based on property value in 1991?
Thanks in advance.
All same size - 3 are in one band, 1 is in a higher band.
Lower 3 are original owners.
Higher 1 is a sale 12 years ago.
All still same house.
Why is CT band different?
Thought CT banding were based on property value in 1991?
Thanks in advance.
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Did the higher one have an improvement marker when it was sold 12 years ago?
If so then this may explain why it's been put in a highr band.
If not then it could be worthwhile appealing the CT banding on the VOA website.
https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/reclaim/council-tax-bands-change0 -
A conservatory? But so have 2 of the other houses?Did the higher one have an improvement marker when it was sold 12 years ago?
If so then this may explain why it's been put in a highr band.
If not then it could be worthwhile appealing the CT banding on the VOA website.
https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/reclaim/council-tax-bands-change0 -
My house, like several of our neighbours' ) has an "improvement indicator" marker on it at
https://www.gov.uk/council-tax-bands
...because we improved it; converted a garage and advised Building Control. So next time it sells via the land registry, we'll probably be bounced up. But that's life.
Don't do what someone in our mates' street did. A row of identical semis. All with low bandings except one. Never been extended. So an anonymous neighbour (the one with an erratic higher banding?) appealed...
... and they all went up a band to match the highest one!0 -
Doesnt seem fair though does it???0
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Doesnt seem fair though does it???
The banding system has always (under council tax) worked on the basis that a property that has been improved would not be increased in band until ownership changed. There probably is no system that would be 'fair' to everyone so the current system is probably the best it's going to get.I no longer work in Council Tax Recovery but instead work as a specialist Council Tax paralegal assisting landlords and Council Tax payers with council tax disputes and valuation tribunals. My views are my own reading of the law and you should always check with the local authority in question.0 -
If the houses are exactly the same, all detached or all semi-detached or all inner terraced and no extensions except for the conservatories and all having same parking or garaging, the there may be an error.
However, it may be that the Valuation Office Agency are only aware of the conservatory on the higher banded house or the conservatories on the other houses have been added after 1 Apr 1993.
As AlexMac has rightly pointed out, it is not unknown for a higher banded house to be correct and lower banded houses, incorrect. You therefore have to decide if it is worth pursuing or notIf you are querying your Council Tax band would you please state whether you are in England, Scotland or Wales0 -
A conservatory? But so have 2 of the other houses?
So they are not all the same.
If the other houses with the conservatory were to be sold then they would likely go up a band as well as its an improvement which takes it into the next band. Whereas the house which hasn't had the conservatory improvement should remain the same if sold0 -
..similar to our street when we first moved in. Talking to the neighbors one day and found out they where a band lower. (Our house is actually slightly larger), however we still raised it with the council and got our property re-banded one band lower, plus we also got "paid back" the difference for some of the years we had been living there......"It's everybody's fault but mine...."0
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I’ve just checked on Gov.uk and there is no improvement indicator marked on it. Taken a screenshot too!0
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Will definitely challenge. As just checked on Gov.uk - one of the other properties does have a ‘improvement marker’ and they are still on the lower banding!0
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