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Council Tax: Valuation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how often the Valuation Office Agency compared different types of properties in order to assess a request from a resident to change a council tax banding in each of the last five years; and on how many occasions the
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 17 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 29 Apr 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how often the Valuation Office Agency compared different types of properties in order to assess a request from a resident to change a council tax banding in each of the last five years; and on how many occasions the
23 Apr 2025
Target answer date
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29 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Valuation Office Agency does not centrally aggregate and record the data in the form requested. When assessing a home for Council Tax banding purposes, the VOA will refer to relevant sales of comparable properties, look at the bands of other comparabl...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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