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Calis Beach Forum => Expat & Property Owners Q and A Forum => Topic started by: yasemin3 on April 10, 2010, 21:49:24 PM

Title: Council Tax
Post by: yasemin3 on April 10, 2010, 21:49:24 PM
could anyone tell me; when the council tax is due in May, how much is it, or is every property given a different amount like in Britain? Also, where do you go to pay it and can someone else do this for you?
Title: Council Tax
Post by: Liz 101 on April 11, 2010, 00:57:49 AM
The amount of council tax depends on the value on your tapu, mine was around 100tl for a 2 bed apartment. If your place is in Fethiye, you just go to the belediye offices above Carrefour. Provided they have a copy of the tapu, anyone can pay on your behalf
Title: Council Tax
Post by: Diverbaz 1 on April 11, 2010, 06:18:34 AM

and is payable anytime between January and May.
Title: Council Tax
Post by: yasemin3 on April 11, 2010, 08:39:14 AM
Thank you both.
Title: Council Tax
Post by: Julesp on April 11, 2010, 12:37:43 PM
I paid mine last week for the 1st time You need to take photocopies of both your tapu and your passport with you
Title: Council Tax
Post by: dotty on April 11, 2010, 15:33:36 PM
and you have to pay in cash
Title: Council Tax
Post by: grahamturner09 on April 11, 2010, 17:51:57 PM
You don't need a pasport.
Title: Council Tax
Post by: loz on April 11, 2010, 18:33:16 PM
quote:
Originally posted by grahamturner09

You don't need a pasport.


Depends who is on the desk :D  Take it and they won't ask, don't take it and they surely will!
Title: Council Tax
Post by: Julesp on April 11, 2010, 20:45:20 PM
Must be whoevers there then. I went last Wednesday and took Tapu photocopy but was also asked for passport copy too So had to nip out and get some done.
quote:
Originally posted by loz

quote:
Originally posted by grahamturner09

You don't need a pasport.


Depends who is on the desk :D  Take it and they won't ask, don't take it and they surely will!
Title: Council Tax
Post by: puma on April 19, 2010, 12:33:13 PM
went to pay our council tax and got asked for our road tax money :(
Title: Council Tax
Post by: littlereddevil on April 19, 2010, 14:02:47 PM
Is the council tax a year in advance or a year behind?
Title: Council Tax
Post by: Chinook on April 19, 2010, 15:33:51 PM
quote:
Is the council tax a year in advance or a year behind?


Current year ie 2010-2011
Title: Council Tax
Post by: Steve A on April 19, 2010, 23:18:19 PM
I always just take last years bill and thats all they need as proof for payment
Title: Council Tax
Post by: Steve B on April 20, 2010, 09:39:15 AM
Yep, I do the same as Steve A.
Title: Council Tax
Post by: hydeaway on April 20, 2010, 17:34:31 PM
Did you pay your road tax if so what did they sting you puma
Title: Council Tax
Post by: maximumtom on April 26, 2010, 11:18:19 AM
I just paid my council tax. They barely glanced at my Tapu and did not ask for my passport.
I was charged 150 TL for the year ( just a normal bill with no road tax or anything else and just 1 person living here).
My friend, 500 yards down the road in the same design house ( also living alone) just paid 54 TL for the year. Can anyone throw any light on this or do they make it up as they go along ( as they seem to for the water bill - see separate thread). Could
it be something with the declared size of the building on the Tapu ?
Title: Council Tax
Post by: Chinook on April 26, 2010, 11:51:37 AM
Did your friend buy his house some years before you as the value on the Tapu seems to have an influence on the tax?
Title: Council Tax
Post by: loz on April 26, 2010, 12:22:49 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Chinook

Did your friend buy his house some years before you as the value on the Tapu seems to have an influence on the tax?


That is interesting, thought provoking.  we are paying ours next month, so will have to wait and see.
Title: Council Tax
Post by: tribalelder on April 26, 2010, 12:25:21 PM
Paid at the Council Offices in Fethiye this morning gone up 15TL since last year but still only paid 59 TL for the full year.....and that for a five bedroom apartment over 200 sq m so I am not complaining.  More interestingly I was not charged any road tax although the couple in front were clobbered! And yes our road was block paved last year! Admittedly they only relayed the existing setts. So I am not complaining again :) 8)
Title: Council Tax
Post by: hydeaway on April 26, 2010, 17:39:40 PM
where abouts do you live tribalelder we are in sokak 959
Title: Council Tax
Post by: tribalelder on April 26, 2010, 18:47:53 PM
Sokak 179 near the Otogar the opposite end to Sarihan Cami. :)
Title: Council Tax
Post by: scouser2 on May 10, 2010, 22:47:15 PM
quote:
Originally posted by maximumtom

I just paid my council tax. They barely glanced at my Tapu and did not ask for my passport.
I was charged 150 TL for the year ( just a normal bill with no road tax or anything else and just 1 person living here).
My friend, 500 yards down the road in the same design house ( also living alone) just paid 54 TL for the year. Can anyone throw any light on this or do they make it up as they go along ( as they seem to for the water bill - see separate thread). Could
it be something with the declared size of the building on the Tapu ?

Hi Maximumtom.
Just went to pay the council tax this morning. We have a 2 bedroom apartment aprox 70 sq meters. Our council tax went up by 21TL this year. Last year we paid 55TL and this year it was 76TL.....there appears to be no rhyme or reason to the way the council tax is worked out.Our neighbours in the next block to us paid less road tax than us and around 30TL less council tax....and their apartment is 1/3 bigger than ours.
I think that they just pluck gures out of the air!!
Title: Council Tax
Post by: littlereddevil on May 11, 2010, 08:49:26 AM
We paid ours last week. Just needed our Tapu. We were 131 ytl for a 3 bed apt in Fethiye 100 sq m