Byline: Phillip NifieldTENS of thousands of Cardiff residents face a huge hike in their council tax bills.Booming house prices in the capital will leave some home owners having to find hundreds of pounds extra because of a re-banding of council tax in Wales from 2005.New assembly government...
A revaluation in Wales last year, which saw the addition of a top-rate band, increased one third of bills. Homeowners in England will have to wait until September next year to find out their new band, which will be used to set prices from April 2007. A spokesman for the Office of ...
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band.In Cardiff, 41 per cent will go up one band, and 13 per cent up two, while eight per cent will go down.Cardiff Central AM Jenny Randerson said: 'Spiralling property prices in Cardiff have exposed how unfair the council tax really is.'If you take a family who have lived in ...
The people of the South-East are about to be penalised for the market forces that have pushed up house prices."Council tax bills have already risen by 70 age band-D bills in London are expected to hit [pounds sterling]1,175 in April.The Government says only homes whose value has risen...