Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Calis Beach Forum => Expat & Property Owners Q and A Forum => Topic started by: brian evans on June 29, 2010, 21:30:15 PM
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Hi All
Just returned from 2 great weeks in Calis I have a 2 bed apartment and we went to pay our council tax as normal ,we were expecting to pay road tax as were were told we would have to pay.
We were only charged our normal costs for the council tax and no charge for any roads ,when we return to our place and discussed with the others who live there fulltime they paid 210 lira each.
Has anyone else found this who dont live thers fulltime or is there another place for roads tax payments.
Regards
Brian
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No, you're just lucky. We had to pay ours at the same time as we paid our council tax. I'd keep quiet :)
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Hi Brian,
if your property is a new build that may account for it. On our site some owners have paid road tax and some not - depending on when they received their Tapu.
Ian
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Hi Brian,
When we were over in May we went to pay our house tax and found we had to pay around 700tl. Local council had applied road tax to our bill and because both our names are on the tapu it was applied twice ! We have had our property for 4 years and was a new build. There were some pretty upset locals in the tax office that day as well. Hope the UK councils dont get wind of this.
George
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Wish ours had been 210tl. We'd to pay almost double that of some other apartments. 724tl EACH!!!
Even those on our complex like us, with two names on the tapu didn't pay that altogether. It really is the luck of the draw with the road tax.
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Thank you Anne! I've been trying to "explain" this to owners on our complex since the bloomin' thing started!! No logic to it at all.[:o)]
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We too have just got back from Calis and also went to pay council tax etc. We were very lucky because we also only had to pay council tax!! On returning back to our complex, after speaking to other owners, we found that some of them had to pay road tax, yet we did not!!! As you say, there doesn't appear to be any logic to it at all.
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I have just been told that the road tax has been scrapped and that payments will not be refunded, they will be used against future council taxes. Has anyone else heard this?[?]
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No so please enlighten us where you heard it.
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Originally posted by kenkay
No so please enlighten us where you heard it.
In a bar of course: :) ;)[:o)]
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there might be some truth in it. i was expecting to pay road tax for a new road here and was told a while ago that it had been suspended due to a court case going on...
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I heard it from a friend who is a resident there!
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If that's the case I'll be paid up for the next 12 or 13 years!!!
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Expect the council tax to go up substantially then! The roads have to be paid for somehow.
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Originally posted by stoop
Expect the council tax to go up substantially then! The roads have to be paid for somehow.
Ours did already this year.....increase of 38% and yes I did pay the road tax!
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Funnily enough, although we paid a lot in road tax, more than most owners on the complex but less than a few...our personal council tax was 30% less than last year.
Weird.
Many other owners on the complex who didn't pay much road tax paid a lot more council tax!!!
Logic...yok.
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Originally posted by janmack
Funnily enough, although we paid a lot in road tax, more than most owners on the complex but less than a few...our personal council tax was 30% less than last year.
Weird.
Many other owners on the complex who didn't pay much road tax paid a lot more council tax!!!
Logic...yok.
I rest my case :)
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There seem to have been a number of threads/posts on this topic which have confused me further. Is there a tariff of charges available so that individuals can calculate how much they are expected to pay?
Are property owners who have registered in joint names liable for double charges or not?
Thanks
Jac
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I have just paid mine last week and can maybe dispel some myths;
Although not legally enforceable at this stage it will belevied as charge against your property until paid and is likely to become law next year.
The price is based on you banding for council tax which is set by the Belideye based upon there valuation of your property.
You still only pay one total ammount even if two names on Tapu eg bill 100ytl divided by 2 +500 ytl each.
If you have not received a written bill you will be informed of how much it is when you pay your council tax.At this point you are still entitled to 25% discsount as this is the first notification you have had.If you walk away without paying you will lose the discount.
My wife and I had 1156ytl to pay between us(2 names on tapu)this was council and road tax.We ended up paying 904ytl.
This was 4 days ago hope this helps.
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Thanks Steve - it was really helpful and we managed to pay our bill without a hitch during our visit
Jac