Some households across Scotland have started to receive their new Council Tax bills for the 2023/24 financial year. The amount you pay will increase in April, however, Martin Lewis is urging people to check they are on the correct band as there are around 400,000 households in Scotland and England on the wrong one and paying too much money to their local council.
On the latest edition of the BBC Radio 5 Live Martin Lewis Podcast, the consumer champion explained how the band evaluation process was carried out in 1991 and implemented in 1993 - but is still the valuation being used some 30 years later which “most homes in England and Scotland are based on”. He told listeners that Wales has done a re-banding of Council Tax bands but “governments avoid it” because it is “really political”.
Martin said: “It’s estimated up to 400,000 homes are in the wrong band.”
