{"id":117874,"date":"2020-07-20T13:00:12","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T06:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/is-a-bill-for-council-tax-empty-homes-premium-correct\/"},"modified":"2020-07-20T13:08:48","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T06:08:48","slug":"is-a-bill-for-council-tax-empty-homes-premium-correct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/is-a-bill-for-council-tax-empty-homes-premium-correct\/","title":{"rendered":"Is a bill for council tax empty homes premium correct?"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nGrandparents are being charged for time the house was uninhabited \u2013 but they didn\u2019t own it thenQ I am writing to you in the hope you can help clarify and maybe help us with a dispute with West Lancashire borough council regarding the empty homes premium. My grandparents (for whom I hold power of attorney) have recently moved to west Lancashire to be close to me and my wife.Upon completion of the purchase of their new home they were issued with a council tax bill that includes a surcharge for the empty homes premium. It turns out the property had been empty for more than two years as the previous owner had been moved to a nursing home and my grandparents are being charged for the time it was uninhabited even though they did not own the property at the time. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
\nRead more…Is a bill for council tax empty homes premium correct?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Grandparents are being charged for time the house was uninhabited \u2013 but they didn\u2019t own...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-uFc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":122583,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/we-feel-penalised-by-200-council-tax-increase-on-our-derelict-cottage\/","url_meta":{"origin":117874,"position":0},"title":"We feel penalised by 200% council tax increase on our derelict cottage","date":"October 14, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Our property has been empty for more than five years, now we are facing a bill of \u00a3725 a monthWe have bought a derelict cottage that needs renovation to make it habitable. 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