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Re: Council Tax Collection Rates
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Originally Posted by gynn
If a property is empty, the owner should have told the Council, and it wouldn't be included in the total. And of course, council tax becomes chargeable on empty properties after 6 months anyway.
The vast bulk of the uncollected figure is from people who can't or won't pay.
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I thought if a property is empty, although there's a tax free period, it is still liable for council tax, albeit at a reduced rate, after that.
Since we're told there are 2,000 empty properties in the borough, I just wondered if the two things were related.
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