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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
Council tax band isn't based on current house prices, it's (bizarrely) based on the value the property would have had if sold in 1991. That includes houses built after 1991... They assess new builds and make an estimate of what they would have been sold at 30 years ago. It's like they bodged the system together out of cardboard and tape... But for better or worse... That's genuinely how it works.
As for 100% exemptions I think that depends on what services are included... I know that when I was on the bennies in England we paid zero council tax (but had a separate water bill) whereas when we moved to Scotland we paid a small fixed amount of council tax because water services in Scotland are built into council tax, and you didn't get that part paid through housing benefit.
I don't really know the system these days as benefits were still all separate things back then, and it's all Universal Credit now.
I think there will definitely be people on low incomes who don't benefit from the council tax rebates (or any of the NI/income tax changes) but will still be hit with doubling energy bills.
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I think i see where the problem is TS. Thats not how it is in england. I'm in a band e house, that is nice, but nothing outstanding. All property was regraded in england in the semi recent past, 1991 prices have long gone here as a marker