Sure, I can pretty much give chapter and verse on the law on this now!   It's a bit complicated, because the Council Tax was rushed in to replace the Poll Tax, so the government didn't have time to create all new legislation.  Instead, they had to come up with a way to value properties, in order to put them into Council Tax bands, and they did that by using an old law that was still in force, the 1969 Rating Act.  This was the law that backed rateable values for the rates, and containe