Anybody Watching The New Matlock
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.When the Council Tax came in, roving bands of valuers were commissioned to take a view of the valuations. They did it by taking windscreen tours of areas - not by individual inspection. One might expect the same sort of exercise again. It only impacts properties that are deemed to move across a valuation threshold from one band to another (could in theory be up OR down).
You might think that in theory for every 'loser' in the Council Tax payments lottery there should be a 'winner' (someone who gains) because the amount each Council needs to raise through the tax doesn't change - its the relative contribution paid by all the householders that changes. Oh no! If the amount raised through the tax increases, apparently central government will reduce the amount they contribute to the council to funding local services. If true, this is yet another of Gordon's stealth taxes.