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I have just moved into a studio flat and whilst it is apparent that we will deal with the electricity bills (there is no gas), we have been given conflicting info about council tax and TV licence.
In the flat there is a small kitchenette (sink, cooker, no washing machine) and an ensuite shower room. We can lock the door to our room, but the flat numbering system is precarious. Some residents in the 'block' refers to the different studios as Flat A-G, or Flat 1-7 or simply the basement flat or first/second/third floor flat.
The lettings agent is no use as he just tells us to pay for everything. That's fine, but I don't want to be contacting the coucil to pay council tax when I don't need to. Nor TV licence.
To make matters more complicated is that we'll only be living there for 3 months, and then we'll be moving out.
Please help!
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Not strictly the most honest advice you'll get but if you are there for only 3 months I really wouldn't worry about the TV licence. Wait for them to contact you.
As for the council tax, if you are in good person mode then contact the council and ask them the situation, if you are in 'neutral' person mode then wait for them to contact you (especially if you are moving out of the borough).
As I said before, I am in no way advocationg dodging responsibilities but the TV licence people are so slow anyway (if you do buy one you can always transfer it to your next address) and the only people to give you the correct council tax information will be the council.
Thanks for that!
I have had a look at those TV licencing resistence forums, and it does seem like it will take a while for the TV Lincencing ppl to catchup.
We will be moving into a completely different part of London too, so I think I will just sit tight and wait until I'm called to pay for the council tax. If anything, I can always just backdate the payment.
I was confused because I spoke to one of our new neighbours in passing and he didn't pay council tax! So we presume the landlord pays for the building.
Thanks again for your response.
Thank you all very much for your answers.
Just to update you all, my other half has had a word with the landlord, and he says that we will need to pay the council tax and TV licence. But it emerged that the tenant prior to our arrival this week has run up debts on the electricity, credit cards, presumably council tax and there was a letter from the TV licencing ppl threatening to send 'enforcers' to the property.
I suppose we will need to ring up the council to dispute the council tax debt? What do we need to proof in terms of the fact that we were living in the studio? Do we just have to show them our tenancy agreement? What about the TV licence? If my other half runs out to buy a TV licence now, do we still have to pay the backdated TV licence usage of the previous tenant?
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