Aibu to ask your house price and council tax cost. (Disparity between areas)

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£250,000. £3263

RIP off.

£165k in Birmingham. Council tax is £1482.

Bought house in 2017. Current value is approx. £260k.

My council tax band is B... which is the 1991 price.
If it was re-assessed.. it would be Band F.
I could not afford that at all!

House was £127k, is now £250k

No idea what my flat is worth as I rent it but I'd guess below £150k. Council tax is band A and £1358 per year, I get single person discount on that.

House worth £360k (bought a couple of years ago). Council tax £2700. Am in West Yorkshire.

They don't provide street lighting where I live, don't maintain the road (that's up to us) and won't provide a green waste service. When I complained that all the surrounding estates had green waste collection they said it wasn't funded by council tax 🤔.

Northeast Scotland. Bought in 2019 for £176k, currently worth around £230k. 3 bed bungalow, band E, £2400….fucking outrageous considering plenty of houses locally with 4 beds and up to 50% more floor space (not extended) are the same banding as ours.

£120k value
Band E
£2500 c tax
West Scotland

I think we should be D. My friend in same town close by is band C and property is worth more. But hers is an old building so value is way out of date compared to my current new-ish build home.

Nope. 120k and paying 2520.

I pay the same for a house a third of yours - £2500 for £300k. North East.

107K approx £1700 East of England

245k in 2013. Council tax circa 2500. Devon.

About £850000 paying £3500 expecting a 10% increase. Considering moving as I feel that I can’t pay almost £4000 in council tax in rural village with no street lights, no pavements, no facilities and lane full of potholes.

We’re band E for a tiny wee semi-detached house and a few streets away larger semis with more bedrooms are only band D. We
tried to challenge it but because our house was priced a certain way in 1990 we’re stuck with it. So we pay the same as most 4/5 bed detached around here for half the size.

works out approx £1800 before water charges (Scotland) for a house worth under £200k

Wow.
I'm in Sydney - my flat is worth the equivalent of about 400,000 pounds. I pay 520 pounds a year in CT! However the stamp duty to buy was extortionate (16,000 pounds..)

Its also interesting because in Australia, if you rent, the owner pays council tax, not the tenant.

280k, £1960

Bought for £238k, worth £500k ish (fully renovated). Council tax is £1900 approx.

125,000, council tax 1,500 after single person discount.

I'm in an area with low property values. Obviously that doesn't make the services the council provides any cheaper. In fact it suggests a less wealthy population in need of more council spending.

So I probably pay more than some London millionaires. But that doesn't mean my council is rolling in it.

Council tax bands make no sense. We ate Band A... out attached neighbour is Band B. Two houses down is Band C. All 3 bedrooms. Two have conservatories... including our Band A one.

Martin Lewis did a big feature on his show about this.
If you’re paying more than a neighbour (and you have a similar or smaller house) and you think yours is wrong you can write to the council and put forward a case for changing bands. Have a look on his website for all the details. People were getting thousands in refunds.

Have a look at my message above. If you think yours in unfair in comparison to a neighbour or two you can appeal it and try to drop a band. You may also be eligible for a refund. People have got thousands refunded.

Approx £350k and £2000.

£300K band D £2459 NE

£950k, almost £4k a year 😐

£500k house, £2478 band E tax.

I’m amazed at some of the very low London bills!

About a million
£2,154 (band D)

It’s a stupid tax - feels very arbitrary. On our road band D and E are randomly distributed. The other half of our semi is basically identical but is E. Neigbour on the other side is also E and they have two fewer bedrooms! At some point one of them will surely ask the council about this at which point I’d imagine ours will be higher rather than theirs lower!