Would you dodge council tax?

A person was avoiding paying their council tax for a staggering 10 years, amounting more than 7,000 pounds without paying a penny. As a result the council has been forced to sell there home to recover all the unpaid tax, at public auction.The owner of the property will receive whatever is left from the sale of the house.

As a council tax payer owning your own home, you could lose your home like this, also known as a charging order if the debt goes over 1,000 pounds, and there is a liability order against you.

As scary as this may sound, it is just the council’s new way of recovering unpaid tax. But that’s not all, as it doesn’t have to be an empty property that is forced to be sold in order to reclaim outstanding council taxes – a property could still be occupied should this happen.

To make sure it doesn’t happen to you, or if you are worried about this, give us a call at Soda Estates. We can arrange for you to sell and rent back your property freeing up equity without forcing you to move out

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