A question about : Bizarre Council Tax Bill
My council tax is In the region of Ј1150. Minus a single occupancy discount that puts me at a little under Ј900 (for ease let's say 890). My end of Jan payment covered the last of my outstanding amount. Recently I've stopped becoming eligible for the single occupancy discount, so I filled in a change of circumstance form online to inform the council.
I was under the impression that the effect this would have would be that I would lose the 25% discount for the period starting from when I became ineligible to the end of the tax year, and I would get a new bill asking for this amount. Is this assumption correct? (This is the question, you could stop reading now 
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So rather than being fully paid off I'd now owe what comes out at, again roughly, Ј50.
I've just received the new bill and it says:
Single occupancy discount adjustment: Ј50
Total annual amount: Ј1150
Minus Total paid to date: -Ј890
Total owed (and due in one payment by the end of the month): Ј310
Best answers:
- Your single person discount (SPD) should be withdrawn from the date you became ineligible up to the end of the year. Your SPD works out at 25% person month, so (Ј1150/12) * .25 = Ј23.96. so for for 2 months you're correct in thinking it should be around Ј50.00
I can't quite understand what they've done. Can you post an image of the part of the demand notice showing the charge ? - It's possible they ended it as of Jan 14 instead of Jan 15 but it's only a guess - I've seen it happen before.
Unless your council is one that shows a full breakdown of all adjustments on the demand notice then you haven't got much chance of getting a full answer without checking with the council.
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