The Telegraph presumably just copied this Express article (which doesn't
mention CL25, so that really is just a typo by the "personal finance
correspondent"):
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/169936/Half-a-million-homes-pay-wrong-council-tax
That article is also factually wrong, given the Revaluation Programme
2007 was called off in 2005 and the minutes they are referring to are
from a meeting in 2005, not 2007; and that again, it thinks CL26 is
before, rather than after the event.
The Daily Mail had better information on the same data, and more
factually accurate, back in May 2009 when this story was actually new:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1187162/700-000-overcharged-great-council-tax-cover-up.html
If a property has been revalued, and given a CL26 (or CL25 or whatever),
that means its band has changed. Nowhere in any of these articles (even
if you count ones full of inaccuracies) or websites can I see anything
that says councils know about a rebanding that the owner does not know
about.
As the Mail article says, you could say that in the generic lots of
houses are in the wrong band and that should be revisited (as the 2007
programme was meant to do, I believe), but that doesn't lead to any
facts that a council is actually rebanding properties but not telling
anyone.
VOA's website says "When a property is improved (e.g. an extension is
built), legislation prevents the VOA from increasing the existing band
of that property until there is a "relevant transaction"."
So, actually, they're not allowed to increase a band until the property
is next sold, even if they know it should be. VOA's website also says it
has history of a property's band.
ATB,
Matthew
Nick Leaton wrote:
That's my reading of the Telegraph.
1. The council knows the property has the wrong value
2. The council doesn't tell the property owner until a sale etc.
3. I would also guess even then they don't tell them about the refund
option.
www.voa.gov.uk <http://www.voa.gov.uk> will get you the details on any
property such as its current band.
It would be interesting to see if there is a site that gives you
historical council tax by councils
Nick
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Anthony Cartmell
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
As far as I can see, CL26 means it has been corrected, not that
it needs correcting:
They've got CL25 in the same article, which is "Material reduction":
http://www.voa.gov.uk/instructions/chapters/council_tax/council_tax_man_s2/Frame.htm
But I agree that these codes seem to be after the event, not before
it. Perhaps the Telegraph mean that CL25 codes have been spotted,
meaning a council has revalued the property, but that council tax
has not reduced accordingly?
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