Dodgy council tax letter? 30 November 2021 at 2:40PM in Reclaiming mortgage fees, council tax, etc 4 replies 164 views

Elis83

Hello! something quite weird happened. I moved to a new property in June this year and right away registered online for the council taxes and paid a first installment. Last week I received 2 letters supposedly from the council. One for this house, and one for another, random house I don't own. Puzzled, we asked the previous owner of this house whether perhaps that her new property? Well...guess what, it's not her new property, it's a property that she WANTED to buy but the sale fell through. How on earth would the council connect this house that our old property owner wanted to buy, to us?? Also the other fishy thing is my name is misspelled on the letter, but not on the website of the council, in my own account. So weird ?!

lincroft1710

Perhaps the previous owner of your home mistakenly informed the council that she would be moving to the house where the sale fell through

CIS

Elis83 said:

Hello! something quite weird happened. I moved to a new property in June this year and right away registered online for the council taxes and paid a first installment. Last week I received 2 letters supposedly from the council. One for this house, and one for another, random house I don't own. Puzzled, we asked the previous owner of this house whether perhaps that her new property? Well...guess what, it's not her new property, it's a property that she WANTED to buy but the sale fell through. How on earth would the council connect this house that our old property owner wanted to buy, to us?? Also the other fishy thing is my name is misspelled on the letter, but not on the website of the council, in my own account. So weird ?!

The most likely is as Lincroft has mentioned. I've seen it happen many times with both rentals and sales/purchases where people have jumped the gun, told the council, and it's then fallen flat around them.

Elis83

that I would understand...but then why would it have my name on it and not the previous owner?

CIS

Elis83 said:

that I would understand...but then why would it have my name on it and not the previous owner?

With councils - !!!!!!-up is far more likely than conspiracy (I've seen some howlers). I'd expect they've had the information regarding addresses and someone has then simply used the name on the account without even looking or checking.