Wrong tax bands in Wales.........

RichWrexham

I have just purchased a house in Wales for £179,000 where l hope to move in 10/12 weeks. The house is currently in band E, it is a 3 bedroom house. I have been on on the VOA website and have discovered that every other house on the street that l am moving to are all on a band E and some are 4 bedroom. I read the council tax reclaiming tips yesterday and discovered that Wales re-banded all properties in 2003 against valuations in the same year, l used the calculations yesterday against the rebanding table (2003 Q3 it was worth £117970) that they released and l believe this property should be in a band C. See table below:-

Does anyone have any experiance of this please?

http://www.opsi.gov.uk/legislation/wales/wsi2003/20033046e.htmRange of values
Valuation band
Values not exceeding £44,000
A
Values exceeding £44,000 but not exceeding £65,000
B
Values exceeding £65,000 but not exceeding £91,000
C
Values exceeding £91,000 but not exceeding £123,000
D
Values exceeding £123,000 but not exceeding £162,000
E
Values exceeding £162,000 but not exceeding £223,000
F
Values exceeding £223,000 but not exceeding £324,000
G
Values exceeding £324,000 but not exceeding £424,000
H
Values exceeding £424,000
I".

guppy

You can make an appeal within six months of moving in. Use nethouseprices.com to find what price identical houses in the area were selling for at 2003. This is much better evidence than the Nationwide calculator.

Good luck.