Martin Lewis has shared council tax recommendation that secured a £6,000 refund for an ITV viewer.
In Tuesday’s episode of his Cash Present Dwell, the monetary skilled revealed a message from a viewer who mentioned they adopted his recommendation to problem their council tax band and obtained a backdated fee.
Round 400,000 households might be able to decrease their bands, in response to Lewis’s Cash Saving Knowledgeable.
Lewis shared that residents ought to verify if their band is greater than their neighbours’ in related or an identical properties, earlier than checking what their property was price in 1991 as bands are based mostly on property values on this 12 months.
Billpayers ought to solely problem their band in the event that they go each checks, “as a result of in any other case, you can ask, they might put your neighbour’s band up, and so they gained’t such as you very a lot,” Lewis suggested.
