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Oh wow: > You may pay less Council Tax for a property you own or rent that’s not your main home. > Councils can give furnished second homes or holiday homes a
by rory 6y ago
Oh wow:
> You may pay less Council Tax for a property you own or rent that’s not your main home.
> Councils can give furnished second homes or holiday homes a discount of up to 50%. Contact your council to find out if you can get a discount - it’s up to them how much you can get.
I'm sympathetic to the messy-move case, but discounting the tax for holiday homes seems quite regressive.
- pmyteh 6y agoI agree, FWIW. The case when a property is uninhabitable because it's being rebuilt seems fair. Getting a discount just for leaving something empty (or using it once a month) does seem regressive. Fortunately(?), councils are basically all skirting bankruptcy, as a result of having their central grants slashed. So these discretionary discounts are becoming rare in actual practice.