Question follow-through · 86778
Second Homes: Council Tax
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department has issued guidance to local authorities on the (a) civil and (b) criminal penalties for avoidance of paying the second homes council tax premium.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 30 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 10 Nov 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department has issued guidance to local authorities on the (a) civil and (b) criminal penalties for avoidance of paying the second homes council tax premium.
3 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Nov 2025
Answer published
Councils have a range of powers available to them to recover any type of unpaid council tax, including council tax premiums. The government has recently consulted on modernising and improving the administration of council tax which seeks views on how coun...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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