Landlords may suffer double council tax during void periods

Just 'move in'.

Is there ever any good news on here? Talk about doom and gloom......

Meet my new tennant, Mr Joe bloggs. He'll be here until it suits me for him to leave, paying as a single person so 25% discount. Thank you.

Plain wrong isn't it, I had a house empty for 3 months last year, not because I didn't want to rent it, I wanted time to get in there and carry out improvements, repairs and re decorate, I was there working 6 days a week through out that time and having to pay council tax , these are all costs which will be passed on

Just ridiculous and greedy, and they call LLs greedy! Dont they realise that tenants will pick up the bill ultimately. Plus as noted here there is no incentive to do improvements between tenants. Properties will be more expensive and worse maintained. Well done!

Utterly illogical and just another tax grab buy thickos, do they sit there pulling these ludicrous policies out of thin air (yes), this is theft and should not be allowed!

Our last property took 9 months to refurb; the mess/damage was extense and everywhere, running out of cash: we stopped paying the council tax, no choice, delayed payment until monies was coming in, this silly stoopid idea would have hastened another property sale, knowing 1st time buyers are non existent in our area, similar to ever dwindling landlords - meaning yet another one less rental property in the PRS, helping push up rents in a crises created by illogically policies such as this farce one.

Really highlights and shows how there are clueless numpties absolutely everywhere!

Just wait until they do the same for business rates

Then the proverbial will really hit the fan

Bankrupt the Landlords and the Tenants, collapse the economy great idea, there don’t seem to be much else going on.
The Tenants haven’t got it and Energy Companies out of Control and uncontactable like many other organisations and local Authorities.

This is my council 😢 my next ‘ void’ will only come from eviction and the sale, I will never have another tenant.

Another good reason to get out of BTL.
Don’t these IDIOTS realise that LLs won’t keep standing for the constant ripping off of the LLs
I for one am selling up and putting money into other opportunities especially now that interest rates are on the up.
The Government and Councils greed will see them with a massive issue very soon.
Where are they going to put all the homeless families that there shortsighted policies will cause when the PRS LLs sell up?
B&Bs and cheap hotels is the only answer and they will have to pay for all of this.
We have propped up the Government and Councils inept house building policies, or should I say, lack of house building policies and now they are trying to get rid of us by chip chip chipping away.
They don’t build houses, the population is constantly increasing.
Maybe they are happy for families of homeless people to roam the streets looking for shop doorways to live in.. Because that’s what is hurtling down the road towards them.

I expect they will make all let or vacant property C/tax payable by the landlord.
The Tenants can disappear at any time they choose and you can’t tell the Council its vacant or they will double the C/tax.
Plenty way’s to damage the Landlords who are already held to ransom, did you not know we live in a Democracy.

The other thing is when they get Permanent Periodic Tenancies at what point does it end when the Tenants decide to scarper. How long before you can go in take possession of your own property. I don’t have Deposits since they were talking away by Shelter and make a liability, even if you have a Deposit and they are minded to leave just skip a couple of payments and you can’t take any action this quickly anyway.

I like it when landlords threaten to increase the rent, makes me laugh. it means their profits are being eaten up by taxes, all we need now is rent controls to squeeze them even more.

What I have never understood is why, a single tenant can reside and qualify for 25% discount yet a landlord is clobbered for 100% council tax when nobody is residing?
That empty property is just that, empty and as such should attract a lower rate, if any, council tax. We are seeing landlords loathe to do basics between properties now because they get that bill within a couple of days of a tenant leaving!

Nick Van Hoogestratwn.... DON'T WORRY, I'm with the programme... That's why I've already sold 2 properties with another 2 going on the market this month.. More to follow... 👍

Jason. When there’s no place available cap or not it won’t by so funny or you have to rent a new build costing 30% more the Government is not going to cap them or at a higher level.
Best thing is to buy your own pay through the nose for next 25 years and lay down the law to the lender, see how you get on.

I always thought that Council tax is so unfair.
2 people living in a property paying full c/tax while in many cases I see 4-6 or 8 residing in a property just paying the same as 2.
The poll tax had merits but the ones that never paid all went marching and got it stopped.
I was no big fan of Lady Tatcher but she had a point.
I think only half should be levied on the Property and everyone make up the rest/ everyone pay something.
They are all using the Council’s Services including having their bins emptied why should they have free rubbish disposal with their overflowing Bins.

There was nothing wrong with the poll tax, seemed a fair way of doing it, everyone would pay

So if you as the LL are paying the full Council Tax for a property surely you can say that you are living in the property and then the property would become Capital Tax exempt.
Just a thought.
I do realise that there are

No prizes for guessing where there's going to be a dearth of rental properties available next, which will increase the cost ( rents ) for tenants.
The residual impact on the Housing market, especially for tenants, will dwarf the sums that Manchester Council recover. !
Tenants need to wake up to the consequences passed onto them by politicians.
What hurts landlords - HURTS Tenants, or as they might say in the vernacular in Manchester, ' What goes round, comes around '

9 MONTHS to ONE YEAR for a Possession Process
(appears all tenants are given 5 months more, to appeal, if they ask)
COURT SAYS IT AIMS TO OPEN AN EMAIL
OR LETTER WITHIN 80 DAYS
(delay increasing)
GET OUT : BEFORE THEY REALLY START TO HURT LANDLORDS
DON'T MOAN LATER... 'THE WRITING WASN'T ON THE WALL'

UPDATE:
5 MONTHS SINCE JUDGE GAVE TENANT 2 WEEKS TO SUPPLY A DEFENCE,
HE GIVES HER ANOTHER WEEK TO PROVIDE ONE
AND BRING US BACK TO SEPTEMBER 2022.
COURT NEEDS 80 DAYS TO OPEN A LETTER/EMAIL
BEEN IN NOT MUCH MORE THAN 2 YEARS BUT NOW OVER
EQUIVALENT OF 1.5 YEARS ARREARS (20K)
DON'T BE A LANDLORD, EVEN IF BANK GIVES BTL MORTGAGES AWAY.

The answer is not to complain or get out but organise. Put pressure on our landlord association to sponsor MPs to protect our and our tenant’s interests.

Jim Haliburton
The HMODADDY