| Comment | How will they figure out which properties are "second homes"?
Let's face it, nobody is going to volunteer the information.
Or what you'll find is the husband owns one property, the wife owns the second, dodge it that way.
There's an equivalent with commercial rates: companies get rates relief on their first property. If you own more than one, the total "rateable value" is taken into account and in most cases will put you over the threshold.
However, councils don't share information with each other so companies are claiming relief on multiple properties - works fine as long as they are in different areas. |
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