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Old 24th March 2008, 10:20   #1 (permalink)
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Default Council Tax Band Challenging Advice

Hi everybody,
I am looking for some advice to challenge my Council Tax Band (Surrey Heath). I am currently in Band F and I am pretty convince that I should be in Band E as some of the properties around my area are in the same band for sometimes being 1.5 time bigger. That is why I decided to go to see the banding of my neighbours and although I notice that most them had the same band as me, one of the houses is in band E. This house is the same as the house of one of my neighbours who is in band F (I need to tell to challenge as well) and should be about the same value as mine since it has similar specification (1st reason to challenge).

In order to have better arguments, I decided to see the price of the properties and looking at it this one (the one in Band E) was bought £270 in June 04 whereas mine was bought £283 in June 06 (I also check the Nationwide caluculator and it gives my house in band E if I compare with the value in 1991) (2nd reason).
The possible reason of why the property is in the wrong band is the fact that the houses have been built in 1993 - 1994 so after the so called "official" valuation.
It seems that my case would be quite strong but as there is only one house amongst about 20 to be in band E, I am a bit worried that instead of decreasing the band of all the houses, the Council will increase the band of this house. Could you tell me if I should proceed the challenge and how please?
Thanks in advance for your help.
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You need to be very careful about this and would suggest you read Martin Lewis' guide which can be found here: -

Council Tax Rebanding: Lower your band and save £1,000s...
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i tried to question it as well all the odd numbers on my street are on a different band to the even numbers and have a slightly bigger garden i sent off a letter and got a reply stating that in there opinion it was right and that's the end off story no right of appeal or anything also said there houses back on to a school which is in fact on there side of the street but on the very end i prob get more noise etc from it because im opposite it
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