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Council tax banding. Has anyone successfully challenged their banding

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notacooldad · 12/03/2025 11:50

I ha e just found out that my house on a block of 14 is in a higher banding than everyone else.
We are a semi detached house and next door is lower. Some houses on the block are double fronted and have large back gardens.
I've only found out by chance as it never crossed my mind to query it before.
If you've had a successful challenge does anything get backdated?

OP posts:
cunoyerjudowel · 12/03/2025 12:05

I did a barn conversion initially band F changed to bad E (but this was 2013)

BreezyPeer · 12/03/2025 12:03

I did this some years ago. My house was inexplicably in a higher band than the other three identical houses in the terrace. I followed the instructions on Moneysavingexpert.com to the letter and got it reduced back to the day I moved in.

Catza · 12/03/2025 12:00

I did. We lived in a basement flat at a time and we were put on Band C which seemed extortionate given that we had a single skylight above the kitchen and two tiny slits below the pavement level in each bedroom as our only sources of daylight. The minute the council assessor walked through the door, she said "I think we made a mistake". We had our band lowered to A and were refunded the difference from the date we registered as occupiers.

PaintDecisions · 12/03/2025 11:59

My neighbour did. His was lowered by 2 bands from D to B with a massive cheque paid to him. Our houses are identical on this street so it was never likely we'd go up! Tbh I actually think the whole street should be Band A not Band B, but I'm struggling to find evidence of the valuations at the right dates.

YouveGotAFastCar · 12/03/2025 11:57

Yeah, someone queried why theirs was lower than ours and had our whole streets increased.., I’ve never heard of anyone’s being lowered, practically, although I believe it is possible.

Kuretake · 12/03/2025 11:56

I live in fear of this! We are inexplicably a lower band than most of the basically identical houses on our road. I'm sure someone will query it one day and ours will increase!

IEatSauerkrautBeforeItWasCool · 12/03/2025 11:55

In all likelihood it will rather increase other properties than lower yours...

Dotjones · 12/03/2025 11:54

Not exactly, although I got my neighbour's tax band increased when I enquired why their property was a band lower despite being exactly the same as mine. So the process does work in that sense at least.

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