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Council tax - empty property notification

Properties undergoing major repair or uninhabitable

If your property is having major work done to it (such as structural alteration or major repair) you may be able to receive a 25% discount your property for up to 12 months (class D), after which the full charge would be levied on your property. 

If the property is empty and unfurnished for two years or more an additional 100% premium would be added making a 200% charge.  When the class D discount expires a 200% charge will be levied immediately if the property has already been empty and unfurnished for two or more years.  Please see below to see the amendments to this policy with effect from 1 April 2020.

 

How to apply

If you wish to claim the discount please contact the council tax section on 01453 754865 or email: revenue.services@stroud.gov.uk to make an appointment for our inspector to visit your property.

 

Unoccupied and unfurnished properties

If your property is unoccupied and unfurnished you may be able to claim a 25% discount on your property for up to 6 months.  A full charge would be payable after 6 months. 

If the property is empty and unfurnished for two years or more an additional 100% premium would be added making a 200% charge.

Please see below to see the amendments to this policy with effect from 1 April 2020.

 

How to apply

If you wish to claim the discount please contact the council tax section on 01453 754865 or email: revenue.services@stroud.gov.uk 

 

IMPORTANT CHANGES:

Council Tax Discount 2020/21 – Long Term Empty Properties

Notice is hereby given that at a full Council meeting on 19 December 2019, Stroud District Council made the following determination for the whole of the district.

Long term empty properties that have been empty and substantially unfurnished for a continuous period, shall be charged the following premiums (currently set at 50%), increasing the council tax charge whilst it remains in such a condition.

  1. Increased to 100% from 1st April 2020 for those properties which have been empty for 2 years and over
  2. Increased to 200% from 1st April 2020 for those properties which have been empty for 5 years and over
  3. Increased to 300% from 1st April 2021 for those properties which have been empty for 10 years and over

 

 

IMPORTANT NOTICE:  the above discounts are levied on the property and not the account holder.  If the liable person for council tax changes after a property becomes unoccupied and unfurnished, due to a tenancy ending or the property being sold, the start date for the discount does not change.  Therefore all or part of the discount may have been used by the previous liable person.

 

Tell us about a change

If you no longer qualify for the empty property discount please let us know by emailing revenue.services@stroud.gov.uk, phoning the council tax helpline (01453) 754 865 or write to us at the council, quoting your council tax account reference number and/or address.

You may have to pay a fine if you don’t tell us.

 

 

 

 

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