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Council Tax Handbook
2015-16
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The Council Tax Handbook is the most widely used practical guide to all aspects of the council tax as it applies in England, Wales and Scotland. Fully revised and updated to take account of all recent changes to legislation, practice and procedure, and with expanded information about council reduction schemes, it remains the standard guide for use by administrators, advisers and others needing to understand the scheme.The Handbook explains:who is liable and who is exempt from paying council taxhow homes are valued for council tax purposes and how valuations can be changeddiscounts and the new reduction schemesthe position of studentsthe powers of local authoritiestax collection, appeals, enforcement and bailiffs' powers
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Mar 1st 2016, 19:34
THIS CPAG HANDBOOK REMAINS THE MOST WIDELY USED AND THE BEST PRACTICAL GUIDE COVERING ALL ASPECTS OF
Awesome - 10 out of 10
THIS CPAG HANDBOOK REMAINS THE MOST WIDELY USED AND THE BEST PRACTICAL GUIDE COVERING ALL ASPECTS OF THE COUNCIL TAX FOR 2016
An appreciation by Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor of Richmond Green Chambers
Yes, this is a book about yet another tax from Westminster and this one crept through Parliament in the aftermath of “Thatcher’s hated Poll Tax”. In other words it is one of the regular cyclical attempts by politicians over the centuries to take more money from us to fill their coffers. The fiscal phoenix rising from the current ashes is called the “Council Tax” and is money taken for services provided to local residents (forget the support grants from central government).
One thing which many voters also disapprove of with the introduction of the council tax is the method used by local authorities to deal with non-payers: those who don’t want to pay or can’t pay. Yes, you get it! There is another privilege for the State in litigation, this time via the “liability order”. Wouldn’t it be a great system if we could all go to magistrates for a liability order when we don’t get paid… but that is another story about the unevenness of enforcement actions!
We are where we are however for when opponents of this additional bureaucratic tier of tax lost the parliamentary debate trying to stop it, the council tax and its spurious ‘local’ link for revenue collection for community services persists even with reductions in the support grants from the Treasury so we need to know what to do with this special tax.
So this handbook gives to us as practitioners, advisers, MPs, councillors, and counsellors probably the best of all the guides which the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) regularly publish to help us in this area of social and welfare law.
We hope every law centre, library and CAB has copy of the new 11th edition for 2016 put together for us by Alan Murdie and Paul Moorhouse and which illustrates how the council tax works in one of the most succinct explanations we have seen for years.
The new “Council Tax Handbook” for 2016 has been fully revised and updated to take account of all recent changes to legislation, practice and procedure, and with expanded information about council reduction schemes.
We agree with the main observation that the new edition of this handbook continues to be the standard guide for use by administrators, advisers and others needing to understand how the scheme works in detail. The handbook makes it so much easier especially when you have to deal with officialdom.
The Handbook covers all the main questions: who is liable and who is exempt from paying council tax; how homes are valued for council tax purposes and how valuations can be changed; discounts and the new reduction schemes; the position of students; the powers of local authorities; tax collection, appeals, enforcement and, most importantly, bailiffs' powers.
The law is correct as at 16th December 2015 and includes regulations laid up to this date. Thank you CPAG.
'Covers all aspects of the tax and its application.' FINANCIAL TIMES // 'A comprehensive guide to all aspects of the council tax ... easy to follow and use.' CITIZENS ADVICE // 'Provides the most up-to-date and reliable coverage of all aspects of the tax as it applies in Britain.' NCVO NEWS // 'Follows the by now familiar format of other CPAG guides ... will be required by those advising people on how to reduce their council tax bills and anyone who needs to understand the scheme. Recommended' THE ADVISER (Citizens Advice)'