Has anyone successfully challenged the council tax band of their property?

[MontyVeda]

Looking at buying a house and one thing i'm noticing is the council tax bands don't make a lot of a sense. A decent house in one area can be in band A whilst a less expensive/smaller house elsewhere is in band B.

I had a quick look on the .gov website and it appears that council tax bands are based on property valuations in 1991... which seems a bit out of date. There is an appeal process but has anyone gone down that route and were they successful?

 

[Venod]

We got ours reduced, we were a cul de sac of mostly 4 bed detached with one 5 bed detached, they extended the cul de sac with more 4 bed detached and one 3 bed bungalow, all the new houses were band D while ours was band E, I wrote to the council pointing out the discrepancy, and we got the reduction to D, I pointed this out to neighbors and they all succeeded in getting a reduction.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Ours got rebanded from a 'B', like the terraced houses to either side

However, ours & the next house are both semi's, so got banded to 'D'
(does the estimated price play a part)

I think wife has enquired

 

[Pat "5mph"]

We got ours reduced, we were a cul de sac of mostly 4 bed detached with one 5 bed detached, they extended the cul de sac with more 4 bed detached and one 3 bed bungalow, all the new houses were band C while ours was band D, I wrote to the council pointing out the discrepancy, and we got the reduction to C, I pointed this out to neighbours and they all succeeded in getting a reduction.

Similar here.
About 20 years ago a neighbour made us aware about other like for like properties in the same street having a lower council tax band.
Me and others successfully got our tax reduced.

 

[teeonethousand]

We got re banded from F to E after I googled all the other houses in our village and we were clearly out of line. They sent someone round and whilst she agreed with me she said maybe they should up the neighbours to align. Not funny. We got money back for a few years and the guy who lived in it from new got a years difference back too.

Worth a shot if you have a decent case.

 

[Dadam]

Well given we’ve always been in band A, no!

And I’ve not wanted to rock the boat