Council tax query

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There is porbably a really obvious answer to this but my brain won't work round it

If for example your council is 1200 per 12 months but you pay for only 10 months of the year from april onwards. So actually pay £120 a month for those ten months.
Have you overpaid if for example you move in november.
(1200/10=120 1200/12=100 difference £20 a month. 7(months) X £20 = £140)

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No. When you move out tell your council the date and they will send an adjusted bill calculated to the day, usually with a refund. You will of course have to pay from the day you move in to your new home.

Annual council tax/365xnumber of days at property = amount due.

If you move within the same council area the bill gets adjusted and any "overpayment" gets transferred onto the bill for your new property.

If you move out of the area you will be entitled to a refund as the bill is recalculated to show the exact number of days you were in the property from April to November.

Depending on when your bill is processed for the new property you may end up with payments due in the months of February and March to keep your monthly payments down (only for that year, the next one would be 10 months as normal. This is usually only if you move into a new area, otherwise you would still be paying against the old address and everything would be transferred over.

Hope this makes sense, have had

Thank you it does and it means I'm pretty sure they owe us as we moved areas. I know we were hit with a stupidly high bit because they had to divide the new bill til april over such a short amount of time