Landlords have welcomed an Appeal Court ruling that buy-to-let landlords are not responsible for paying the council tax on a property after a tenant has moved out before a tenancy agreement has expired.
The appeal was brought by Leeds City Council which demanded that council tax be paid by a landlord for five properties for periods when the homes were vacant but the tenancies had not been formally ended by either a landlord or his tenants.
The tenancies in question were contractual periodic tenancies following a fixed-term and the council’s argument was based on the claim that a single tenancy cannot be both a fixed-term and periodic.
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So how does this work I have a tenant whose absconed so is she responsible till I re-let it? Even if she been gone more than her 'one month' whilst in periodic?
Until you have got the propriety possession legally you should not be responsible for the CT , according to my interpretation
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