There has been relief within the industry following an Appeal Court judgement that landlords are not responsible for paying the council tax on a property after a tenant has moved out but before a tenancy agreement has expired.
The appeal was brought by Leeds City Council which demanded that council tax be paid by a landlord on five properties for periods when the homes were empty but the tenancies had not been formally ended by neither the landlord nor his tenants.
The Residential Landlords’ Association, which had been following the case closely, says the tenancies in question were contractual periodic tenancies following a fixed term: 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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We also need to pay attention some places will increase their council tax. For example: Bristol. Council tax is already very expensive, for owners, landlords and tenants. We should not look for more money in this direction for the government ALL THE TIME. It has to be stopped. All of us are also entitled to understand how do they spend the council tax in details.
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