Yearly council house tax

[quackers]

Yes I agree loz. I understand the council tax is calculated to start as from May and payable from then out here in Ciftlik. When we purchased in November a few years ago we didn't have to pay until May the next year.
Also we have 2 names on our tapu and our council tax is divided between the 2 names so each pays half.We also pay for the rubbish bins to be emptied in this tax,that's the bins in the road that we all use no matter who they belong to. If you want your own you have to pay for it or you can have an oil drum for free . At least you could last year.

[milliemars]

quote:Originally posted by stoop

quote:Originally posted by milliemars

We are in Ovacik and paid 371tl, 117tl of that was for rubbish clearence don,t even have a bin.

Maybe they don't base it on you having a bin or not - just on the fact that you have a house and they would expect you to create rubbish and that they would have to collect it at some point/some place.

Interesting point though - maybe if we all wrote to our local council and said we didn't want our bin emptying they would reduce our council tax? mmmmmm Computer might say NO

They have said get a bin and we will empty it,but 371tl council tax,I know mt Turkish neibours are paying nowhere near this.

[Scunner]

If you have evidence of it you should post it here. I bet you don't!

[milliemars]

Don,t have evidence,but do you no anyone else paying this amount of council tax in this area,as I don,t normally here the dearest i have heard of is 190tl we don,t have a road as such just a very bad dirt track which is washed away when it rains.You knowe how it works here Keith 3 tier price systems.

[Scunner]

You said you know - but anyway, 3 tier prices for many things but not council tax. It's not that bad yet.

[Chinook]

Isn't the Council Tax based on the sale value on the Tapu? I know that we pay much less than our Turkish neighbour who only bought last year.

[Scunner]

Yes it is based on the value of the tapu, and that is totally hit and miss - irrespective of where you are from. It is a historical mess where the value is underquoted to avoid a large purchase tax bill. The next time the property changed hands that figure "with a bit added" was used as the accepted tapu value.

Now, tapu value minimums are set locally and you can't go below. The values are reviewed annually. As is normal, reviewed means increased. If you think it through to a natural conclusion, the days of undervaluing properties are over. The big problem on the horizon, you read it here first, is overvaluation of tapu values - as minimum value levels are increased each year, but property prices aren't increasing. Soon enough the tapu value of a genuine 100k value villa, that you bought at market value of 100k, could well be 120k - and you pay the tax not based on what it was actually worth but on the value dreamed up by the authorities...

[Chinook]

In other words Scunner after years of illegal undervaluing of Tapu values the Council tax is now based on an assessed value just like in England.

[Scunner]

Yes that is indirectly correct but it doesn't make the new values accurate.

[Scunner]

The other point is that council tax bills won't change from the old undervalued level for all the time the property doesn't change hands, which could be a week and could be generations.