Do you know that you could be entitled to hundreds of pounds for over payment of your Council Tax. Hundreds of houses in North Lanarkshire have been placed in the wrong Council Tax Band since 1992. Hundreds of families have struggled to meet their Council Tax payments every month while NLC were knowingly over charging. Know what really gets me? North Lanarkshire Council has rebanded all its own properties and kept quiet that those in Westfield who bought their CDC Home were entitled to do the same. For the last 25 years many of us have been in the wrong Council Tax Band.
OK so what can you do about it?
Make a claim. However, it isn’t that easy because the law says that you have only six months in which to make your claim. And since NLC kept their gobs shut, those affected are out of time. Claim anyway. You will get a letter stating that you are out of time so appeal against the decision.
I was chairman of the Westfield Residents Association at the time and I am also a member of the present Community Council and I can assure you that neither I nor anyone else I have spoken to were made aware of the banding anomaly, our rights as residents or any other reference to rebanding from NLC, then or now. It was thanks to a chance meeting with a friend that it came to light.
So get your claim in now.
Information can be found on Martin Lewis’s website.
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/reclaim/council-tax-bands-change
Good luck.
westfield 