council tax listings mystery

[tali122]

ive just checked the c tax valuations listings and its confirmed my suspicions

my mom lives less than 2 miles away in a larger and more valuable property and in a better area and she WITH her neighbours is in a band a listing, wheras i am in a b listing ( ive checked my neighbours and there is a combination of a AND b listings - so it means that "mistakenly" i am not the only one)

ive queired this with the c tax offices and they been unable to come up with a reason other than that " my mom might be in a wrong listing" - but ive checked and all neighbours share same listing, or, " i might be living in a better area" - WHAT!!! i want to get out and move BACK to the area my mom lives in

so i simply cant understand why a house like mine worth some 20k less than my moms is in a higher listing and that the c tax offices cannot explain it

[gary baldy]

If you think there has been some mistake or you feel some injustice you could perhaps contact these lot - its their job!

http://www.lgo.org.uk/

[buildersmate]

This is nothing to do with the Council. In England and Wales a body called the Valuation Office Agency deals with the issue of deciding what banding a specific property is in. I take it you live in Wales, where the wholesale re-assessment has occurred?

If you get on this website, all will be revealed. You can check the banding of every property in your road from here. Whether it is fair, obviously I can't say. You can appeal, I believe, and how to do it will be on the site.

www.voa.gov.uk

I don't understand your comment about 'worth some �20k less'. The bandings A to H work according to ranges of assessed property values

[xrayspecs]

Maybe at the time the property was valued, your mums house was considered less valuable than yours. Since the original valuation, houses in your mothers area may have increased in value faster than yours but the old valuations will stand. Hence the apparent discrepancy.