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Hi all,
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
We completed on our home in January and have kept the flat we were renting while the messier works on the new house are carried out (electrics, windows, doors, new heating system, etc).
I was told yesterday that we must pay double council tax for the house we bought as it was empty for over 12 months before we bought it.
I wasn’t aware of this weird rule (I probably should have checked), but when I suggested that I move into the house while the renovation works are done while my partner keeps the flat, I was all but told I was be committing some kind of tax evasion.
It’s being eating away at me since. It’s our home and I’m being told I can’t live in it? Yes I would be doing so to mitigate tax liabilities, but since when did that become a crime?
so could anyone advise whether I am within my rights to do so?I would effectively have a bad, a TV and my personal possessions and would genuinely live and sleep there every night until my partner is ready to join me. I work on the house most evenings anyway, so it makes little difference to me where I rest.
Any advise at all would be sincerely appreciated. I truly hate this government and all the little ways they create to take more and more from normal working people!
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
We completed on our home in January and have kept the flat we were renting while the messier works on the new house are carried out (electrics, windows, doors, new heating system, etc).
I was told yesterday that we must pay double council tax for the house we bought as it was empty for over 12 months before we bought it.
I wasn’t aware of this weird rule (I probably should have checked), but when I suggested that I move into the house while the renovation works are done while my partner keeps the flat, I was all but told I was be committing some kind of tax evasion.
It’s being eating away at me since. It’s our home and I’m being told I can’t live in it? Yes I would be doing so to mitigate tax liabilities, but since when did that become a crime?
so could anyone advise whether I am within my rights to do so?I would effectively have a bad, a TV and my personal possessions and would genuinely live and sleep there every night until my partner is ready to join me. I work on the house most evenings anyway, so it makes little difference to me where I rest.
Any advise at all would be sincerely appreciated. I truly hate this government and all the little ways they create to take more and more from normal working people!
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