Property News · October 8, 2017

Paying too much in council tax? It’s never been easier to check


It takes minutes to check your property’s tax banding and a successful challenge could lower your bill and earn you a rebateThe tech whiz-kid Joshua Browder shot to fame two years ago with DoNotPay, an online “robot lawyer” designed to fight unfair parking tickets. It has gone on to successfully challenge more than 450,000 tickets – and now it’s time for local authority council tax departments to watch out. That’s because Browder, 20, has now created an online service to help households challenge their council tax banding.“I’ve developed technology which looks at your council tax band, your neighbours’ council tax bands and historical house price data, and tells you whether you might get your band lowered. You can complete the process in 10 seconds,” says Browder, who has moved from London to study computer science at Stanford University. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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